Motivational Quotes

Death

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Death

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

David Assael

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

George Burns

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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

William Shakespeare

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

10.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

11.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

12.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

13.

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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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

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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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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Gray, Thomas

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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.

20.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

21.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

23.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

Epicurus

26.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

27.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

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

29.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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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

31.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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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

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

34.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

35.

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

Greene, Graham

36.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

38.

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

39.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

40.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Becht, Ben

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

45.

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

Diderot, Denis

46.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

47.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

48.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Bayly, Joseph