Motivational Quotes

Death

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

- Penn, William

Best Quotes about Death

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Diderot, Denis

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

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

Fielding, Henry

10.

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

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

12.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

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

Dickinson, Emily

16.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

17.

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

Dryden, John

18.

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

David Assael

21.

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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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

24.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

25.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

29.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

30.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

31.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

32.

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

Ann Radcliffe

33.

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

34.

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

35.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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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

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

38.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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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

40.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Allen, Woody

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

44.

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

Randy K. Milholland

45.

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

Bible

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

47.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

48.

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

Dyer, Wayne

49.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.