Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Matt Frewer

Best Quotes about Death

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

Woody Allen

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

10.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

12.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

13.

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

14.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

15.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

17.

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

Woody Allen

18.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

19.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

20.

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

21.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

22.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

24.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

25.

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

Palmerston, Lord

26.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

27.

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

Einstein, Albert

28.

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

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

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

31.

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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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

33.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

34.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

35.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Montgomery, James

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

Publilius Syrus

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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

40.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

41.

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

Manilius, Marcus

42.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

43.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

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

Plato

45.

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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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

47.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Eliot, George

49.

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

Gide, Andre

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.