Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

Epictetus

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

Hamilton, Hugh

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

10.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

11.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

12.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

13.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

14.

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

15.

'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

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

17.

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

Bryant, William C.

18.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

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

Epicurus

20.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

21.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

24.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

25.

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

Foster, John W.

26.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

27.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

28.

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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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

30.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

33.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

34.

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

35.

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

Becht, Ben

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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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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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

41.

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

Duffecy, James

42.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

43.

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

Mann, Thomas

44.

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

Plato

45.

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

Fromm, Erich

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

Craig Volk

48.

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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