Motivational Quotes

Death

Death doesn't frighten me.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Death

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Mitford, William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

John Scalzi

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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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

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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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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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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Fielding, Henry

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

William Shakespeare

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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

Frost, Robert

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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

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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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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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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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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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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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

39.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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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

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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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