Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Craig Volk

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

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Duffecy, James

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Mitford, William

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

10.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

11.

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

Gide, Andre

12.

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

Miller, Joaquin

13.

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

14.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

15.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

16.

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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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

19.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

20.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

21.

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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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

23.

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

Bayly, Joseph

24.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

25.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

26.

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

Epicurus

27.

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

28.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

29.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

30.

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

Cocteau, Jean

31.

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

32.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

33.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

36.

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

37.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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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.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

40.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

42.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

43.

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

Chandler, Raymond

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

48.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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