Motivational Quotes

Death

Only the young die good.

- Herford, Oliver

Best Quotes about Death

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

Charles II

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

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.

10.

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

Hubbard, Kin

11.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

17.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

18.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

19.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

20.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

Cocteau, Jean

22.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

23.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

24.

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.

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Sophocles

28.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Addison, Joseph

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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

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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

Epicurus

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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

34.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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 nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Camus, Albert

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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 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

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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

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

45.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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

Havner, Vance

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