Motivational Quotes

Death

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bayly, Joseph

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Bible

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Pamela Ribon

10.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

11.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

12.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

13.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

14.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

15.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

16.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

22.

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

Woody Allen

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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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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

25.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

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

George Burns

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

28.

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.

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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.

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Dryden, John

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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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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Milton, John

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

38.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

40.

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

Craig Volk

41.

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

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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

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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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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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

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Macdonald, George

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