Motivational Quotes

Death

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.

Best Quotes about Death

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

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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.

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

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Montgomery, James

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.

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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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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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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

29.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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

Bible

31.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Fielding, Henry

35.

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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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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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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Morris, Robert T.

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

41.

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

Ken, Thomas

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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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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Hermes, Georg

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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