Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Death

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

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Fielding, Henry

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

George Burns

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]

Bible

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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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

11.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Woody Allen

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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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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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

19.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

20.

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

David Assael

21.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

22.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

28.

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

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

31.

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

32.

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

33.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

34.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

35.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

36.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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

39.

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

Charles II

40.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

43.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

44.

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

John Scalzi

45.

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

46.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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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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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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