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

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Byron, Lord

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

10.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

11.

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

Picabia, Francis

12.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

13.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

14.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

15.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

16.

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

Barker, Clive

17.

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

18.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

19.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

21.

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

22.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

23.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

24.

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

Randy K. Milholland

25.

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

26.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

27.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

28.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

29.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

31.

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

Matt Frewer

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

33.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

34.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

36.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

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

Lowell, James Russell

39.

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

Bryant, William C.

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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 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

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Bible

44.

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

William Shakespeare

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

47.

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

Macdonald, George

48.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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