Motivational Quotes

Death

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

- Arndt, Ernest Moritz

Best Quotes about Death

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Duffecy, James

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

Gide, Andre

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

10.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

11.

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

Charles II

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

14.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

15.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

19.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

20.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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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

22.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

24.

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

Allen, Woody

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

26.

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

27.

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

Farber, Dave

28.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

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

31.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

32.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

33.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

34.

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

Fielding, Henry

35.

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

36.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

37.

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

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

Craig Volk

40.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

41.

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

Marvell, Andrew

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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

43.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

44.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

46.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

47.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

48.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

49.

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

Bible

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

Browne, Sir Thomas