Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Barker, Clive

Best Quotes about Death

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

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

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

10.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

14.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

15.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

16.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

17.

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

George Burns

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

20.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

21.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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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

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

27.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

28.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

29.

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

Charles II

30.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

31.

'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

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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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

34.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

35.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

36.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

39.

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

Epictetus

40.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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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.