Motivational Quotes

Death

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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

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

Bayly, Joseph

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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

10.

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

11.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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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

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

Eliot, George

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

15.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Hubbard, Kin

19.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

20.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

23.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

24.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

25.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Macdonald, George

29.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

30.

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

Cocteau, Jean

31.

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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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

33.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

34.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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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.

37.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Cocteau, Jean

39.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

40.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

41.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

42.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

43.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Aurelius, Marcus

45.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

46.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

49.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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

Butler, Samuel