Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Randy K. Milholland

Best Quotes about Death

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

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Luther, Martin

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Miller, Joaquin

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Craig Volk

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

Bible

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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

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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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

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Fielding, Henry

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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.

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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

27.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Sophocles

30.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

33.

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

Craig Volk

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

35.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bronte, Emily

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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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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 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

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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