Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Moody, Dwight L.

Best Quotes about Death

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

Bible

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

Craig Volk

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

10.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

11.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

12.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

13.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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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

16.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

17.

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

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18.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

Camus, Albert

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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

24.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

25.

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

Sophocles

27.

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

28.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

29.

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

30.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

36.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

37.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

38.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

39.

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

40.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

41.

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

Butler, Samuel

42.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

43.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

44.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

46.

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

47.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

48.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.