Motivational Quotes

Death

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

- Thrale, Hester i

Best Quotes about Death

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Randy K. Milholland

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

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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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

11.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

14.

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

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Berra, Yogi

18.

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.

19.

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

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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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

24.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Pamela Ribon

27.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

29.

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

Fielding, Henry

30.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

33.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

34.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

35.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

36.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

37.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

38.

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

39.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

40.

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

Foster, John W.

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

43.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

44.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

45.

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

46.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

47.

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

48.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

49.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.