Motivational Quotes

Death

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

- Book Of Common Prayer

Best Quotes about Death

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

Fielding, Henry

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

'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

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

Ann Radcliffe

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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

Gray, Thomas

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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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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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

Epictetus

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Pamela Ribon

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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

Hook, Sydney

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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

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Allen, Woody

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

Eliot, George

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

Bible

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

Aaron McGruder

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Miller, Joaquin

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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

33.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

Becht, Ben

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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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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Mann, Thomas