Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Death

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Keats, John

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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.

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

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

Hendrix, Jimi

10.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

11.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

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

Bayly, Joseph

14.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

15.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

16.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

18.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

19.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

21.

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

Craig Volk

22.

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

23.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

24.

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

25.

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

Bronte, Emily

26.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

27.

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

Becht, Ben

28.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

30.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

32.

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

33.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

34.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

35.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

38.

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

39.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

40.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

41.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

43.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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]

Bible

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

Auden, W. H.

49.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

50.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles