Motivational Quotes

Death

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

- Macarthur, Douglas

Best Quotes about Death

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Carson, Johnny

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

William Shakespeare

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

10.

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

11.

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

Diderot, Denis

12.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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'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

18.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

19.

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

Keats, John

20.

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

21.

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

Allen, Woody

22.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

23.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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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

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

Gray, Thomas

27.

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

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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.

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

30.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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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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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

36.

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

37.

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

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Bagnold, Enid

40.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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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

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

44.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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!