Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

'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

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.

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

Cocteau, Jean

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

11.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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

Hook, Sydney

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Stephanie Klein

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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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

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

30.

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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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Woody Allen

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

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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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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

Havner, Vance

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

Epicurus

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

Eliot, George

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben