Motivational Quotes

Death

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

- Lewis, C. S.

Best Quotes about Death

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

11.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

13.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

14.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

15.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

18.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

19.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

21.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

22.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

27.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

28.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

30.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

31.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

32.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

35.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

39.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

40.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

41.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

48.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

49.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.