Motivational Quotes

Death

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Death

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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

Hubbard, Kin

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

A. Sachs

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

11.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

12.

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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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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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

Duffecy, James

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Farber, Dave

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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

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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

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Bayly, Joseph

30.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

31.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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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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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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