Motivational Quotes

Death

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

- Greene, Graham

Best Quotes about Death

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

Havner, Vance

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

Foster, John W.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Farber, Dave

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

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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

11.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

12.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

13.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

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

Plato

15.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

16.

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

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

Fielding, Henry

19.

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

Dickinson, Emily

20.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

21.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hermes, Georg

23.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

24.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

25.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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

27.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

28.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

29.

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

Bacon, Francis

30.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

31.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

32.

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

Bayly, Joseph

33.

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

Pamela Ribon

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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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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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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

39.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

40.

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

Butler, Samuel

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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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

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

Bible

46.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Publilius Syrus

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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'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