Motivational Quotes

Death

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Death

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

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

Carson, Johnny

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

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Pamela Ribon

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

Frida Kahlo

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Bible

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Fromm, Erich

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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

Gide, Andre

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

Addison, Joseph

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Woody Allen

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

Donne, John

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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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

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Duffecy, James

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Luther, Martin

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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

Foster, John W.

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

Matt Frewer