Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

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

Ken, Thomas

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

Fromm, Erich

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

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

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

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

10.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

11.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

12.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

13.

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

Epictetus

14.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

15.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

16.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

17.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

18.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

19.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

20.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

21.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

22.

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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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.

24.

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

25.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

26.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

27.

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

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.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

30.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

31.

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

Randy K. Milholland

32.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

33.

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

34.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Camus, Albert

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Montgomery, James

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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

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

40.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

43.

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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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

45.

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

46.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

47.

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

48.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

49.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Hubbard, Kin