Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Death

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

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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.

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

A. Sachs

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

Jefferson, Joseph

10.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

11.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

12.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

14.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

15.

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

16.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

17.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Moody, Dwight L.

22.

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.

23.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

Craig Volk

26.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Horace

29.

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

Butler, Samuel

30.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

31.

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

Mitford, William

32.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

33.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

34.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

35.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Butler, Samuel

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Publilius Syrus

40.

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

41.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

42.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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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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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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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

46.

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

Frida Kahlo

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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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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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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

50.

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