Motivational Quotes

Death

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Death

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Fielding, Henry

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

10.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

11.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

12.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

13.

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

Woody Allen

14.

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

15.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

16.

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

17.

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

Craig Volk

18.

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

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

21.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Oscar Wilde

24.

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

25.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

26.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Johnny Carson

31.

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

32.

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

Donne, John

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Chandler, Raymond

35.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

36.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

37.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

38.

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

39.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

41.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

42.

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

Eliot, George

43.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

44.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

45.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

46.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Craig Volk