Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Nepos, Cornelius

Best Quotes about Death

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Duffecy, James

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

11.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

Woody Allen

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

Greene, Graham

16.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Macdonald, George

21.

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

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Milton, John

31.

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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

A. Sachs

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

Thrale, Hester i

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Canetti, Elias

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

Camus, Albert

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

Allen, Woody

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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