Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Pamela Ribon

Best Quotes about Death

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Manilius, Marcus

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

10.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

11.

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

Ken, Thomas

12.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

13.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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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

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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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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

25.

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

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

29.

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

Havner, Vance

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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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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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Nepos, Cornelius

41.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily