Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Death

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

Allen, Woody

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Keats, John

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

A. Sachs

11.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

12.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

13.

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

14.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

15.

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

Duffecy, James

16.

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

David Assael

17.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

18.

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

Darrow, Clarence

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Ken, Thomas

24.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

25.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

26.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

27.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

28.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

29.

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

Aaron McGruder

30.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

31.

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

Bible

32.

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.

33.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

34.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

35.

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

Berra, Yogi

36.

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

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

38.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

39.

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

40.

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

Hoffer, Eric

41.

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

Camus, Albert

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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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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

44.

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

Bagnold, Enid

45.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

46.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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

Bayly, Joseph