Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

- Herodotus

Best Quotes about Death

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Randy K. Milholland

10.

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

Dryden, John

11.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

12.

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

Horace

13.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

14.

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

Sophocles

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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

17.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

18.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

19.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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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

21.

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

Hermes, Georg

22.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

23.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

24.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

25.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

26.

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

David Assael

27.

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

28.

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

Camus, Albert

29.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

32.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

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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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

37.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

38.

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.

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

Bayly, Joseph

40.

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

Allen, Woody

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

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

Stephanie Klein

44.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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

Becht, Ben

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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

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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

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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