Motivational Quotes

Death

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Bible

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

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

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

10.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

11.

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

Plato

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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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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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.

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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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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

17.

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

Matt Frewer

18.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

Barker, Clive

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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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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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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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

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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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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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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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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

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Keats, John

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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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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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Plato

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bible

41.

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

42.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

50.

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