Motivational Quotes

Death

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Death

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

Samuel Goldwyn

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

10.

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.

11.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

12.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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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

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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

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

17.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

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

Charles II

19.

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

Palmerston, Lord

20.

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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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Luther, Martin

23.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

24.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

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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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

27.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

28.

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

Addison, Joseph

29.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

30.

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

Picabia, Francis

31.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

32.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

33.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

34.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

35.

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

Hubbard, Kin

36.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

37.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

39.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

40.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

41.

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

Young, Edward

42.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

45.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

46.

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

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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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

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle