Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Becht, Ben

Best Quotes about Death

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

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Publilius Syrus

10.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

11.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

12.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

13.

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

Chandler, Raymond

14.

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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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

16.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

18.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

19.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

20.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

21.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

22.

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

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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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Dryden, John

27.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

28.

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

Beaumont, Francis

29.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

30.

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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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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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

33.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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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.

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

Dryden, John

38.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

40.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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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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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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.