Motivational Quotes

Death

The fear of death is worse than death.

- Burton, Robert

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

A. Sachs

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

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

Camus, Albert

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Fromm, Erich

10.

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

11.

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

Duffecy, James

12.

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

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bible

15.

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

Randy K. Milholland

16.

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

George Burns

17.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

18.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

19.

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

Auerbach, Red

20.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carson, Johnny

23.

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

24.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Frida Kahlo

27.

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.

28.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

29.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

30.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

31.

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

Eliot, George

32.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

35.

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

36.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

37.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

39.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

40.

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

Bible

41.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

43.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

46.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Woody Allen

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.

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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De