Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Death

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

Matt Frewer

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

William Shakespeare

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

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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.

11.

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

12.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

13.

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!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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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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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

Macarthur, Douglas

20.

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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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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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

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Becht, Ben

29.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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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

31.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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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]

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

34.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

35.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

Luther, Martin

37.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

38.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

39.

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

Hook, Sydney

40.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

Frida Kahlo

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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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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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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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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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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

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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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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey