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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Bible

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

Cocteau, Jean

10.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

11.

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

12.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

13.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

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

Bright, Grant M.

15.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

16.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

17.

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

David Assael

18.

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

19.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

20.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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

Publilius Syrus

24.

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

25.

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

Carson, Johnny

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

28.

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

Young, Edward

30.

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.

31.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

32.

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

Milton, John

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Camus, Albert

36.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

37.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

38.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

40.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

41.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

42.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

43.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

44.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

45.

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

Bacon, Francis

46.

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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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