Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Gilmore, Gary Mark

Best Quotes about Death

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

10.

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

Marvell, Andrew

11.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

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

13.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

14.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

15.

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

Montgomery, James

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

Woody Allen

17.

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

Bagnold, Enid

18.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

19.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Woody Allen

21.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

22.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Edith Sitwell

24.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

25.

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

Manilius, Marcus

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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

27.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

28.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

29.

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

Cocteau, Jean

30.

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

31.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

32.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

33.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

34.

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

Young, Edward

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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

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

37.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

40.

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

Bronte, Emily

42.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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