Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Davis, Mrs Hubbard

Best Quotes about Death

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Charles II

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

Dickinson, Emily

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Epictetus

10.

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

Fielding, Henry

11.

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

12.

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

Bryant, William C.

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

17.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

George Burns

21.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

Barker, Clive

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

Allen, Woody

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Ken, Thomas

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Bible

31.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

32.

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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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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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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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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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Publilius Syrus

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Duffecy, James

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein