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

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

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

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Eliot, George

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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

Bronte, Emily

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

11.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

12.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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

Berra, Yogi

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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

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

Bible

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

Carson, Johnny

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Byron, Lord

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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

Barker, Clive

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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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

35.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bible

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

43.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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

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

Craig Volk

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.