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

1.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

2.

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

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3.

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

Dryden, John

4.

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

5.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

6.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

7.

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

Duffecy, James

8.

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

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9.

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

Mitford, William

10.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

11.

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

Auerbach, Red

12.

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

13.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

14.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

15.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

16.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

17.

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.

18.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

23.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

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

Horace

25.

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

Woody Allen

26.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

27.

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

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28.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

30.

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.

31.

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

Bayly, Joseph

32.

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

Miller, Joaquin

33.

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

Fielding, Henry

34.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

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

36.

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

Allen, Woody

37.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

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