Motivational Quotes

Death

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about 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.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

11.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Horace

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

20.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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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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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

26.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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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.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Butler, Samuel

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

46.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid