Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Hubbard, Kin

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

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

Eliot, George

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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

Aaron McGruder

10.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

11.

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

12.

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

Bhagavad Gita

13.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

14.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Fielding, Henry

16.

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

Palmerston, Lord

17.

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

Fromm, Erich

18.

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

Farber, Dave

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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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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

21.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

Durrell, Lawrence

25.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

26.

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

Duffecy, James

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

28.

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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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

31.

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

Frida Kahlo

32.

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

Picabia, Francis

33.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

41.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

42.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

43.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

Becht, Ben

47.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

48.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

49.

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

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

Carson, Johnny