Motivational Quotes

Death

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Death

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

Randy K. Milholland

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.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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

George Burns

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

11.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

12.

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

Ken, Thomas

14.

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

Picabia, Francis

15.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

16.

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

Marvell, Andrew

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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

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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

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

Havner, Vance

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

Canetti, Elias

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

25.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

28.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

30.

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

31.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

32.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

33.

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

34.

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

35.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

36.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Byron, Lord

38.

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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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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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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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

42.

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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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

45.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

46.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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

A. Sachs

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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