Motivational Quotes

Death

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Death

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lowell, James Russell

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

10.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

11.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

12.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

14.

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

George Burns

15.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

16.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Bhagavad Gita

18.

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

Auerbach, Red

19.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

20.

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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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

22.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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

25.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

28.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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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

31.

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

Picabia, Francis

32.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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

35.

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

Camus, Albert

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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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

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.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

Randy K. Milholland

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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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

45.

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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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

48.

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

Fielding, Henry

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.