Motivational Quotes

Death

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Foster, John W.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Bayly, Joseph

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Allen, Woody

10.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

11.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

12.

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

13.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

14.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

16.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

17.

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

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

Moody, Dwight L.

19.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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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

24.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

25.

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

Allen, Woody

26.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

27.

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

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

30.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

31.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

35.

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

Dyer, Wayne

36.

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

Diderot, Denis

37.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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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

40.

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

Dryden, John

41.

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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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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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

44.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

45.

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

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

47.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud