Motivational Quotes

Death

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

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Best Quotes about Death

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Palmerston, Lord

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Duffecy, James

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

Bayly, Joseph

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

11.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

12.

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]

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13.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Milton, John

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

20.

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

Fielding, Henry

21.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

22.

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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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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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

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25.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

26.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

27.

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

Cocteau, Jean

28.

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

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

31.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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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

34.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

35.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

36.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.