Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Johnny Carson

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

Woody Allen

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

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

10.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

11.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

12.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

13.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

14.

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

15.

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

16.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

17.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

18.

'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

19.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

20.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

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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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

23.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

28.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

29.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

30.

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

Fielding, Henry

31.

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

32.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

33.

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

34.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

35.

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

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

39.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

40.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.