Motivational Quotes

Death

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

- Hook, Sydney

Best Quotes about Death

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.

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

Ken, Thomas

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Butler, Samuel

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

10.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

11.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

12.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

13.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

15.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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

17.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

18.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

19.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

21.

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

Fromm, Erich

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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

Butler, Samuel

25.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

28.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

30.

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.

31.

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

Bible

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

Manilius, Marcus

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

38.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

42.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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