Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Belloc, Hilaire

Best Quotes about Death

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Charles II

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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

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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 is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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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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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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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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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

George Burns

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Barker, Clive

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Epicurus

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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

Bayly, Joseph

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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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

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Picabia, Francis

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous