Motivational Quotes

Death

It is natural to die as to be born.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Death

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Woody Allen

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

Auerbach, Red

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

11.

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

Woody Allen

12.

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

Forster, Edward M.

13.

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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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

15.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

18.

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

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

Fielding, Henry

20.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

21.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

22.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

25.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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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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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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

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

Picabia, Francis

32.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

33.

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

John Scalzi

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

Woody Allen

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Bible

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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.

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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

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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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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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.