Motivational Quotes

Death

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

- Hamilton, Hugh

Best Quotes about Death

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

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

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

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Macdonald, George

10.

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

Bayly, Joseph

11.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

12.

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

Aaron McGruder

13.

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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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

15.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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.

Bacon, Francis

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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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

20.

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

21.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

22.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

Publilius Syrus

24.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

25.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

26.

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

27.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

28.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

29.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

30.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

31.

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

Bible

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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

33.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

34.

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.

35.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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

38.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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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

40.

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

Beaumont, Francis

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