Motivational Quotes

Death

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

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Best Quotes about Death

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

Edith Sitwell

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

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

Butler, Samuel

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Keats, John

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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

11.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

12.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

13.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

14.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

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

Horace

16.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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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.

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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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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

21.

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

George Burns

22.

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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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

24.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

25.

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

Horace

26.

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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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

28.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

29.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

30.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

31.

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

Butler, Samuel

32.

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

Eliot, George

33.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

34.

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

35.

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

Euripides

37.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

38.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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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

40.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

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41.

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

Marvell, Andrew

42.

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

Eliot, George

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

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

45.

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

Young, Edward

46.

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.

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

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48.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

49.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

50.

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