Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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.

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

Hubbard, Kin

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Duffecy, James

10.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

11.

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

Matt Frewer

12.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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

Craig Volk

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

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

19.

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

Fielding, Henry

20.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

22.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

25.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

Butler, Samuel

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

28.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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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

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

Woody Allen

32.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Bayly, Joseph

36.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

Fielding, Henry

38.

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

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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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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

42.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Publilius Syrus

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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

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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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

49.

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