Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Death

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Euripides

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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

Samuel Goldwyn

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

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13.

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.

14.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

15.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

16.

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

17.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

18.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

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19.

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

Butler, Samuel

20.

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

21.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

22.

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

23.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Horace

25.

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

26.

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

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27.

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

Keats, John

28.

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

29.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

30.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

31.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

32.

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

Hoffer, Eric

33.

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

Macdonald, George

34.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

35.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

36.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

37.

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

Camus, Albert

39.

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.

40.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

43.

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

Horace

44.

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

45.

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

Canetti, Elias

46.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

47.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

48.

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