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

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

Duffecy, James

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

A. Sachs

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

11.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

12.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

13.

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

14.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

16.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

17.

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

Craig Volk

18.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

19.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

21.

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

Dickinson, Emily

22.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

23.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

24.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

25.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

26.

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

Oscar Wilde

27.

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

28.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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.

30.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

32.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

33.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

34.

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

Horace

35.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

36.

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

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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

38.

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

Bible

39.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

40.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

41.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

42.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

44.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

45.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Bible

47.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Epicurus

50.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John