Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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

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.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

10.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

11.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

12.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

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

Greene, Graham

14.

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

Cocteau, Jean

15.

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

Stephanie Klein

16.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

17.

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

18.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

19.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

20.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

21.

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

Cocteau, Jean

22.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Duffecy, James

25.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

26.

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

27.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

28.

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

Auden, W. H.

29.

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

30.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

31.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

32.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

33.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

34.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

35.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

36.

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

Butler, Samuel

37.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

40.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

41.

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

Bible

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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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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

44.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

45.

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

Johnny Carson

46.

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

Bible

48.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

49.

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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard