Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Death

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

Butler, Samuel

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

Pamela Ribon

11.

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

12.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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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

14.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

16.

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

Farber, Dave

17.

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

18.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

19.

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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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

21.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

22.

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

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

24.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

27.

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

Foster, John W.

28.

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

Craig Volk

29.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

30.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

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

Hermes, Georg

32.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

33.

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

34.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

35.

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

Camus, Albert

36.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

37.

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

38.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

39.

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

Euripides

40.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

43.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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