Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Horace

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

Byron, Lord

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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

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

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

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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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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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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

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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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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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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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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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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

Frost, Robert

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Craig Volk

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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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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Keats, John

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Miller, Joaquin

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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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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Barker, Clive

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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

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus