Motivational Quotes

Death

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Death

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

Diderot, Denis

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

David Assael

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Heidegger, Martin

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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

Ken, Thomas

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Camus, Albert

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

Farber, Dave

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

Johnny Carson

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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

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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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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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Craig Volk

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

39.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

41.

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

Eliot, George

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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