Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Best Quotes about Death

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

Butler, Samuel

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Marvell, Andrew

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Frida Kahlo

10.

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

Macdonald, George

11.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

12.

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

13.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

14.

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

15.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

17.

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

Dickinson, Emily

18.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

19.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

20.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

21.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

22.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

25.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

26.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

27.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

31.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

32.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

33.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

34.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

37.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

38.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

39.

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

Farber, Dave

40.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

41.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

42.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

43.

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

Gide, Andre

44.

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

Johnny Carson

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

Mitford, William

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Carson, Johnny