Motivational Quotes

Death

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

- Arndt, Ernest Moritz

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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

Einstein, Albert

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

William Shakespeare

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

10.

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

Eliot, George

11.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Sophocles

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

Macarthur, Douglas

16.

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

Horace

17.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

18.

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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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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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

21.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

22.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

24.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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

Belloc, Hilaire

26.

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.

27.

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

Hook, Sydney

28.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

29.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

30.

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

Forster, Edward M.

31.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

32.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

33.

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Bertolt Brecht

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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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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.

37.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

38.

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

Pamela Ribon

39.

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.

40.

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

Edith Sitwell

41.

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

Havner, Vance

42.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

43.

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

Marvell, Andrew

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

45.

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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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

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

49.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

50.

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