Motivational Quotes

Death

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Death

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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

Farber, Dave

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Beaumont, Francis

14.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

15.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

16.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

17.

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

Macdonald, George

18.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

19.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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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

21.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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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.

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

24.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

26.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Becht, Ben

30.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

31.

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

Bright, Grant M.

32.

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

33.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

34.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

35.

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

36.

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

37.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

38.

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

39.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

40.

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

Hazlitt, William

41.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

42.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

43.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Forster, Edward M.

46.

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