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]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Death

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bacon, Francis

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

10.

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

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

13.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

16.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

17.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

18.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

19.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

21.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

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

23.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

24.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

25.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

26.

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.

27.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

28.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

29.

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

Oscar Wilde

30.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

31.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Horace

33.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

34.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

35.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

37.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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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

39.

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

Johnny Carson

40.

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

Macdonald, George

41.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

43.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

John Scalzi

45.

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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

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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]

Bible

50.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs