Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Death

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

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.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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

Publilius Syrus

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

William Shakespeare

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Duffecy, James

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

11.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

18.

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

Randy K. Milholland

19.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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

Randy K. Milholland

24.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

25.

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 want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

29.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

30.

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

31.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

33.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

34.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

36.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

37.

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

Pamela Ribon

38.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Berra, Yogi

42.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

43.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward