Motivational Quotes

Death

I am not the least afraid to die.

- Darwin, Charles R.

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Miller, Joaquin

10.

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.

11.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

13.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

16.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

17.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

18.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

19.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

20.

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

Hoffer, Eric

21.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Auerbach, Red

23.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

25.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

26.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

27.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

28.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

29.

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

30.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

31.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

32.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

33.

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Publilius Syrus

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

Cocteau, Jean

37.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

38.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

39.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

40.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

43.

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

Hook, Sydney

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Duffecy, James

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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

48.

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

Keats, John

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

Woody Allen