Motivational Quotes

Death

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

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

Auerbach, Red

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Mann, Thomas

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Macdonald, George

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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

A. Sachs

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Craig Volk

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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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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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

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

28.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

32.

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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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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Palmerston, Lord

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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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

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

Bible

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

Ken, Thomas

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Hook, Sydney

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

Berra, Yogi