Motivational Quotes

Death

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

- David Assael

Best Quotes about Death

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Plato

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

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

Carson, Johnny

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

10.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

11.

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

Butler, Samuel

12.

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

Horace

14.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

15.

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

Havner, Vance

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

Bible

17.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

18.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

20.

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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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Samuel Goldwyn

23.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

26.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Canetti, Elias

29.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Craig Volk

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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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

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

37.

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

William Shakespeare

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

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

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

Dryden, John

42.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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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.

44.

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

45.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Bible

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