Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Hubbard, Kin

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Bible

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

10.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

11.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

12.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

14.

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

15.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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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.

18.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Havner, Vance

20.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

21.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

22.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

23.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

24.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

25.

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

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

31.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

Farber, Dave

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Epicurus

36.

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

Bible

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Heidegger, Martin

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