Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

- Maclaren, Alexander

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bible

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Barker, Clive

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

10.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

11.

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

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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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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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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

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

17.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

18.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

19.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

20.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

Bayly, Joseph

22.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

25.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

26.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Havner, Vance

28.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

30.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

31.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

32.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

33.

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

Matt Frewer

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

Becht, Ben

35.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Fromm, Erich

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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

Canetti, Elias

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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

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

Horace

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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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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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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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