Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Moody, Dwight L.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Woody Allen

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

Foster, John W.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Greene, Graham

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Bible

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

Bagnold, Enid

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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

Bryant, William C.

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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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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Plato

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

Montgomery, James

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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

Aaron McGruder

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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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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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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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Johnny Carson

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Oscar Wilde

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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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

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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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