Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

- Epicurus

Best Quotes about Death

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Bronte, Emily

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hubbard, Kin

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

Dryden, John

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

10.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

11.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

12.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

13.

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

Johnny Carson

14.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

16.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

17.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

18.

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

19.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

20.

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

21.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

22.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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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.

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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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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

28.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

29.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

30.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

31.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Epictetus

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Keats, John

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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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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

37.

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

38.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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

40.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

41.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

42.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

45.

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]

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46.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

47.

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

48.

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