Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Moody, Dwight L.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bible

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Manilius, Marcus

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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

11.

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

Luther, Martin

12.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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.

17.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

18.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

19.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

Picabia, Francis

22.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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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

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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

27.

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

28.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

29.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

30.

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

31.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Foster, John W.

34.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

35.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Euripides

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

Epicurus

40.

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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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

44.

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

Ken, Thomas

45.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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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

47.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

49.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Woody Allen