Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Death

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

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Plato

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

William Shakespeare

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

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

10.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

Dryden, John

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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Lucan, F. L.

19.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

22.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Matt Frewer

25.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

26.

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

Allen, Woody

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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

Guthrie, Arlo

31.

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

A. Sachs

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

Belloc, Hilaire

33.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

38.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

41.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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?