Motivational Quotes

Death

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Death

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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

Butler, Samuel

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

Stephanie Klein

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

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Fielding, Henry

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

Bayly, Joseph

19.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

20.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Publilius Syrus

22.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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

25.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Donne, John

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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

29.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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

Epicurus

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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

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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

33.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

34.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

36.

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

Havner, Vance

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

Lowell, James Russell

40.

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

41.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

42.

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

43.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

44.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

46.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

47.

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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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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

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

Johnny Carson