Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Randy K. Milholland

Best Quotes about Death

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Lowell, James Russell

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Auden, W. H.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

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

George Burns

11.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

12.

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

Eliot, George

13.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

14.

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

Macdonald, George

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

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

Havner, Vance

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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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

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

39.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

40.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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.

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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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

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Epicurus

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John