Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Death

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

Ken, Thomas

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

Auerbach, Red

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Bible

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

10.

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

Hook, Sydney

11.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

12.

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

Allen, Woody

13.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

14.

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

Young, Edward

15.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

16.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

17.

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

Carson, Johnny

18.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Cocteau, Jean

21.

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

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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

23.

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

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

25.

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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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

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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

Landor, Walter Savage

29.

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

30.

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

Lowell, James Russell

31.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

33.

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

34.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

35.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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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

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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

Bible

40.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

41.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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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

43.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

44.

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

Havner, Vance

47.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

48.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?