Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Moody, Dwight L.

'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

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

Leonardo da Vinci

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

10.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

11.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

12.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

13.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

18.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

20.

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

Berra, Yogi

21.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Camus, Albert

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

Epicurus

24.

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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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

26.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

28.

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

Macdonald, George

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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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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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

32.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

33.

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

Allen, Woody

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

35.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

39.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Aaron McGruder

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

43.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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