Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Mann, Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

Hermes, Georg

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

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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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 a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Pamela Ribon

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Eliot, George

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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

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

Craig Volk

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

William Shakespeare

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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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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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

38.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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