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

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

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

Lee, Nathaniel

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Donne, John

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

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

11.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

12.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

A. Sachs

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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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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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

Matt Frewer

18.

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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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

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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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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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 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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

27.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

28.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

29.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

30.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

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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

33.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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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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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Byron, Lord

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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

Fromm, Erich

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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

43.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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