Motivational Quotes

Death

Death doesn't frighten me.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Duffecy, James

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buffett, Jimmy

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

11.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

12.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

16.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

17.

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

Mann, Thomas

18.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

19.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

20.

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

Bible

21.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

22.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

23.

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

David Assael

24.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

25.

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

Butler, Samuel

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

29.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

30.

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

31.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

33.

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

34.

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

Auerbach, Red

35.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

36.

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

Bayly, Joseph

37.

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

38.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

40.

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

Horace

41.

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

Fielding, Henry

42.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

43.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

44.

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

Butler, Samuel

45.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

46.

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

Craig Volk

47.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

48.

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

49.

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

Picabia, Francis

50.

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

Young, Edward