Motivational Quotes

Death

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

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

Edith Sitwell

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

11.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.

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

14.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

16.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

17.

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

Bacon, Francis

18.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

19.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

20.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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.

22.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

Eliot, George

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

27.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Bertolt Brecht

29.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Mann, Thomas

31.

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

32.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

33.

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

Ann Radcliffe

34.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

35.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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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

37.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

39.

'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

40.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

42.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

43.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Woody Allen

45.

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

Hubbard, Kin

46.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

48.

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

George Burns

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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas