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

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

10.

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

Heidegger, Martin

11.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

19.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

20.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

21.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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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

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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

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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

30.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

31.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

33.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

34.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

35.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

36.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

37.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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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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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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

John Scalzi

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

42.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

43.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

45.

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

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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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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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