Motivational Quotes

Death

See in what peace a Christian can die.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

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

Camus, Albert

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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 all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

Allen, Woody

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

Gide, Andre

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

10.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

11.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Dyer, Wayne

17.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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

Bible

19.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Keats, John

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

24.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

30.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Duffecy, James

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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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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

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

39.

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

Woody Allen

40.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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

44.

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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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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