Motivational Quotes

Death

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Death

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Allen, Woody

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

10.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

11.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

12.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

13.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Frost, Robert

15.

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

Darrow, Clarence

16.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

17.

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

Allen, Woody

18.

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

Hoffer, Eric

19.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

20.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

21.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

22.

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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

24.

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

Montgomery, James

25.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

26.

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

27.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

28.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

29.

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

Bible

30.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

31.

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

Gide, Andre

32.

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

Camus, Albert

33.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

34.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

35.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

36.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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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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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

39.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

40.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

41.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

43.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

45.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

49.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen