Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Stephanie Klein

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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

Camus, Albert

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

Becht, Ben

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Hubbard, Kin

10.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

11.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

12.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

14.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

15.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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

17.

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

Sophocles

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Bagnold, Enid

20.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

21.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

22.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

23.

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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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

25.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

26.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

27.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

29.

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

Gray, Thomas

30.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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'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

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

Bible

33.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

34.

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

Carson, Johnny

35.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

37.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

38.

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

Lowell, James Russell

39.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

40.

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

Eliot, George

41.

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

42.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

44.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

47.

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

Barker, Clive

48.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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