Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

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

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Euripides

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

Keats, John

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Bible

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Lowell, James Russell

10.

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

Woody Allen

11.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

13.

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

John Scalzi

14.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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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

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

17.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

18.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

20.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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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

25.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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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

28.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

29.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

30.

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

31.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

32.

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]

Bible

33.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

34.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

35.

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

36.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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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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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

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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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

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

45.

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

46.

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

Plato

47.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

49.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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