Motivational Quotes

Death

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

- Lutzer, Erwin W.

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Publilius Syrus

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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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

15.

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

Matt Frewer

16.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

17.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

18.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

23.

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

Craig Volk

24.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

25.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

26.

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

Cocteau, Jean

27.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

28.

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

Picabia, Francis

29.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

31.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

32.

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

Fromm, Erich

33.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

34.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

35.

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

36.

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

Euripides

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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

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

Byron, Lord

40.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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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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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

43.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

44.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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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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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.