Motivational Quotes

Death

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bible

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

Moody, Dwight L.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Woody Allen

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

Euripides

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

10.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

12.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

13.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

14.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

15.

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

Woody Allen

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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

17.

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

Miller, Joaquin

18.

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

19.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

21.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

22.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

23.

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

Epicurus

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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.

25.

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

Horace

26.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

27.

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

Fielding, Henry

28.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

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

Pamela Ribon

30.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

31.

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

Publilius Syrus

32.

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

Woody Allen

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Barker, Clive

36.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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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

38.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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

40.

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

Montgomery, James

41.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

42.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

43.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

44.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

45.

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

Beaumont, Francis

46.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

47.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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