Motivational Quotes

Death

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

- Bagnold, Enid

Best Quotes about Death

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lee, Nathaniel

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

10.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

11.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

12.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

13.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

14.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

15.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

16.

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

17.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

18.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

19.

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

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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

21.

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

Bible

22.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

23.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

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

Mitford, William

25.

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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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

28.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

29.

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

Palmerston, Lord

30.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

32.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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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

35.

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

Dryden, John

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

38.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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

Havner, Vance

40.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Luther, Martin

42.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

43.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

44.

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

Greene, Graham

45.

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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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

47.

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

48.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.