Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Bayly, Joseph

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

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

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Bronte, Emily

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

10.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

11.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

12.

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

Dickinson, Emily

13.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

15.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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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

17.

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

Montgomery, James

18.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

19.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

20.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Frida Kahlo

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

24.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

25.

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

26.

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

Barker, Clive

27.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

28.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

33.

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

Keats, John

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

38.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

40.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

41.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

42.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

43.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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

Publilius Syrus

45.

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.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

48.

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 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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph