Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Bible

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

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Keats, John

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

Macdonald, George

12.

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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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

14.

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

Butler, Samuel

15.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

16.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

18.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

21.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

22.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

23.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

25.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

26.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

27.

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

George Burns

28.

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

Bayly, Joseph

29.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

33.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

34.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Duffecy, James

36.

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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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

38.

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

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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

40.

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

Montgomery, James

41.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

43.

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

Stephanie Klein

44.

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

45.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

46.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

47.

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

Ann Radcliffe

48.

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

49.

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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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage