Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Death

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Publilius Syrus

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

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

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

10.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

11.

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

A. Sachs

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Greene, Graham

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

28.

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

Luther, Martin

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

32.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

38.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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

Foster, John W.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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