Motivational Quotes

Death

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

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

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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

Haracourt, Edmond

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

10.

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

Eliot, George

11.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

12.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

13.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

14.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

15.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

20.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

21.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

22.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

24.

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

Randy K. Milholland

25.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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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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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

28.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

30.

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

Beaumont, Francis

31.

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

32.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

33.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Belloc, Hilaire

35.

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Allen, Woody

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

Euripides

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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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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

41.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

44.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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