Motivational Quotes

Death

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.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Young, Edward

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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

Woody Allen

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

10.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

11.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

12.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

13.

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

Bible

14.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

15.

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

Gide, Andre

16.

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

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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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

19.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

20.

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

Foster, John W.

21.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

23.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

24.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

25.

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.

26.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

27.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

28.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

31.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Mitford, William

33.

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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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

35.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

36.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Camus, Albert

38.

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

Montgomery, James

39.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

40.

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

Camus, Albert

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Woody Allen

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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

44.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

45.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

46.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

47.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

48.

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

Diderot, Denis

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?