Motivational Quotes

Death

The fear of death is worse than death.

- Burton, Robert

Best Quotes about Death

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

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Farber, Dave

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

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

George Burns

11.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

12.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

13.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

14.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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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

18.

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

Horace

19.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

21.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

22.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

23.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

24.

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

Montgomery, James

25.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

28.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

29.

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

Frida Kahlo

30.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Bible

32.

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

33.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Eliot, George

35.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

36.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Publilius Syrus

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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

40.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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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

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Bhagavad Gita

45.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Cocteau, Jean

50.

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