Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Death

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

Havner, Vance

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

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

Aaron McGruder

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

10.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

11.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

12.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

13.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

14.

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

Frost, Robert

15.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

17.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

18.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

19.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

20.

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

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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

23.

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

Frida Kahlo

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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

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Duffecy, James

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

29.

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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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

31.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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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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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

34.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

35.

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

Camus, Albert

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

37.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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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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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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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

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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

45.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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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

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

50.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell