Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bible

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

10.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

11.

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

Craig Volk

12.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

13.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

14.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

Carson, Johnny

16.

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

Johnny Carson

17.

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

Greene, Graham

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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

Mitford, William

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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

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Epicurus

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

28.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

29.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

30.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

31.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

32.

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

Hubbard, Kin

33.

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

34.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Epicurus

36.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

37.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

39.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

40.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

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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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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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

44.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

45.

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

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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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

49.

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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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas