Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Moody, Dwight L.

Best Quotes about Death

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

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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

Buffett, Jimmy

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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

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

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

Havner, Vance

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

10.

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

11.

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

Randy K. Milholland

12.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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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

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

Gray, Thomas

15.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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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

18.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

19.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

20.

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

21.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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

Byron, Lord

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

25.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

26.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

27.

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

Craig Volk

28.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

29.

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

William Shakespeare

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

Dryden, John

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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

33.

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

Dyer, Wayne

34.

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

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

37.

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

Bible

38.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

40.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

41.

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

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

45.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

47.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

49.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert