Motivational Quotes

Death

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

- Farber, Dave

Best Quotes about Death

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

Dyer, Wayne

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Edith Sitwell

10.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

11.

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

Lucan, F. L.

12.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

13.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

14.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

15.

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.

16.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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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

18.

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

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

21.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

22.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

27.

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

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

29.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

30.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

31.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

33.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

34.

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

Keats, John

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

Guthrie, Arlo

36.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

37.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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

40.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Stephanie Klein

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

Duffecy, James

45.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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