Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Foster, John W.

Best Quotes about Death

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Frida Kahlo

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

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Luther, Martin

11.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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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

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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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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

19.

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

Johnny Carson

20.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

21.

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

22.

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

Dryden, John

23.

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

Beaumont, Francis

24.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

25.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

26.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

27.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

28.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

29.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

30.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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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

32.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

33.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

34.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

35.

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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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

39.

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

40.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

41.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

42.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

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

45.

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]

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46.

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

47.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

49.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

50.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho