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

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

Keats, John

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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]

Bible

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

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

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Macarthur, Douglas

10.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

11.

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

Donne, John

12.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

13.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

14.

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

Horace

15.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

16.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

17.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

18.

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

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

20.

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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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

Mann, Thomas

24.

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

25.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

28.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

30.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

31.

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

Charles II

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

Barker, Clive

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

36.

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

George Burns

37.

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

38.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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

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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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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

42.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

43.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

44.

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

45.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Heidegger, Martin

47.

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

Edith Sitwell

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