Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

- Bayly, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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

Farber, Dave

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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

Marvell, Andrew

11.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

12.

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]

Bible

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Hubbard, Kin

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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'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

20.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Allen, Woody

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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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

26.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Frost, Robert

29.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

30.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

31.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

32.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

34.

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

Craig Volk

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

43.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

44.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

45.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Horace

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

Duffecy, James

48.

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

49.

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

Carson, Johnny

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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