Motivational Quotes

Death

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Death

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Woody Allen

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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

Bible

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

Butler, Samuel

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

10.

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

Camus, Albert

11.

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

12.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

14.

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

Pamela Ribon

15.

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

Bryant, William C.

16.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

17.

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

18.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

19.

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

Becht, Ben

20.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

22.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

23.

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

24.

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

25.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

26.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

27.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

28.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

29.

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

Darrow, Clarence

30.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

31.

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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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

33.

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

Matt Frewer

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

35.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Belloc, Hilaire

38.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

39.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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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.

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

47.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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

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

Cocteau, Jean