Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Macarthur, Douglas

Best Quotes about Death

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

William Shakespeare

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Woody Allen

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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

Manilius, Marcus

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Foster, John W.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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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

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

Gide, Andre

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Palmerston, Lord

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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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

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Epictetus

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

Bright, Grant M.

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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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