Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Macarthur, Douglas

Best Quotes about Death

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

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

William Shakespeare

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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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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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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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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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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

Aaron McGruder

28.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Matt Frewer

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

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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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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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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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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Epicurus

43.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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