Motivational Quotes

Death

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Death

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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

10.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

11.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

12.

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

Eliot, George

13.

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

14.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

15.

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

Woody Allen

16.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

17.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

18.

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

19.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

20.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

21.

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

22.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

24.

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

Bagnold, Enid

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

Stephanie Klein

26.

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

Edith Sitwell

27.

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

Montgomery, James

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Addison, Joseph

30.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

31.

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.

32.

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

Charles II

33.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

34.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

36.

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

Woody Allen

37.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

38.

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

Donne, John

39.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

40.

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

41.

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

Bayly, Joseph

42.

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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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

44.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

45.

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

46.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

47.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

48.

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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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch