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

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

Bible

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Bayly, Joseph

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

10.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

11.

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

Butler, Samuel

12.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

13.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

14.

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

Hoffer, Eric

15.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

16.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

20.

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

Bayly, Joseph

21.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

25.

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

Bryant, William C.

26.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

27.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

28.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

29.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

31.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

32.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

33.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

35.

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

George Burns

36.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

38.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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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

42.

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

Canetti, Elias

43.

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

Eliot, George

44.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

45.

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

Greene, Graham

46.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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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