Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Death

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

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Kocher, Gerhard

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

10.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

11.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

12.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

13.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

14.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

20.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

21.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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

Guthrie, Arlo

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

Eliot, George

27.

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

Lowell, James Russell

28.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

29.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

30.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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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

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

33.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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35.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

39.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

40.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

41.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

42.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

45.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.