Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Death

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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

Foster, John W.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

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

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

11.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

12.

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

Horace

13.

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

14.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

15.

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

16.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

17.

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

Matt Frewer

18.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

19.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

20.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

21.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

22.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

23.

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

Miller, Joaquin

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

27.

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

28.

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

Butler, Samuel

29.

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

Craig Volk

30.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

31.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

32.

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

33.

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

Publilius Syrus

34.

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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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

36.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

37.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

38.

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

Oscar Wilde

39.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

40.

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

Camus, Albert

42.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

43.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

44.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

45.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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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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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

48.

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

49.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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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