Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bayly, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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

Epicurus

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Allen, Woody

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

10.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

11.

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

12.

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

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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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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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

16.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

17.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

18.

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

Miller, Joaquin

19.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

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

Hazlitt, William

21.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

22.

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

Ken, Thomas

23.

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

Luther, Martin

24.

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

Bacon, Francis

25.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

26.

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

Butler, Samuel

27.

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

Auerbach, Red

28.

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

29.

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

Craig Volk

30.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

31.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

32.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

33.

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

Havner, Vance

34.

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

Bayly, Joseph

35.

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

Donne, John

36.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

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

Greene, Graham

40.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

41.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

43.

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

Carson, Johnny

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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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

46.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

47.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

48.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

49.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift