Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Macarthur, Douglas

Best Quotes about Death

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.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Gray, Thomas

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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

Becht, Ben

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

Byron, Lord

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

10.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

11.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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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

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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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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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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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

19.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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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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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Bertolt Brecht

29.

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

Bible

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

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

Farber, Dave

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

Horace

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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

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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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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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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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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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

43.

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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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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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

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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

Butler, Samuel