Motivational Quotes

Death

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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Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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

Macdonald, George

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

Craig Volk

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bible

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

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

11.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

12.

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

Woody Allen

13.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

14.

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

Fromm, Erich

15.

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

Allen, Woody

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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

17.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

18.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

19.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

20.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

21.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

22.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

23.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

24.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

25.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

26.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

27.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

28.

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

Marvell, Andrew

29.

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

Publilius Syrus

30.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

31.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

32.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

33.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

34.

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]

Bible

35.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

37.

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

Hoffer, Eric

38.

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

Foster, John W.

39.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

40.

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

Ken, Thomas

41.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

42.

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

Horace

43.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

44.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

45.

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

Luther, Martin

46.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

47.

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

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.

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

Charles II

50.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg