Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Donne, John

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

William Shakespeare

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Macdonald, George

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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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

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

Craig Volk

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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

Gray, Thomas

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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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

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

Greene, Graham

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Montgomery, James

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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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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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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.