Motivational Quotes

Death

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

- John Scalzi

Best Quotes about Death

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Horace

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

Matt Frewer

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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

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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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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Woody Allen

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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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'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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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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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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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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]

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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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

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Camus, Albert

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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

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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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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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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 should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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