Motivational Quotes

Death

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Death

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

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

Epicurus

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

13.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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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

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

Hendrix, Jimi

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Eliot, George

21.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Canetti, Elias

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

24.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

25.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

26.

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

Barker, Clive

27.

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

Dickinson, Emily

28.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

29.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

30.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

31.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

32.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

33.

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

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

35.

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

Keats, John

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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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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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

39.

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

Allen, Woody

40.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

42.

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

Woody Allen

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

45.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

46.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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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

49.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett