Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

10.

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

Publilius Syrus

11.

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

Hubbard, Kin

12.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

15.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

17.

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.

18.

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.

19.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

21.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

22.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

23.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

24.

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

Addison, Joseph

25.

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

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

Sophocles

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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

Byron, Lord

33.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

34.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

35.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

36.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

37.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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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

39.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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.

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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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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

43.

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

Heidegger, Martin

44.

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

Bryant, William C.

45.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

46.

'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

47.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

48.

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

Fielding, Henry

49.

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

Cocteau, Jean

50.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.