Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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

Bacon, Francis

10.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

11.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

12.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

13.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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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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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

17.

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 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

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

20.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

21.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

25.

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

26.

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

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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

Publilius Syrus

30.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

31.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

32.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

33.

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

34.

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

Allen, Woody

35.

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.

36.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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

39.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

40.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

Bronte, Emily

42.

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

Auerbach, Red

43.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

44.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

45.

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

Bright, Grant M.

46.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Hook, Sydney

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

Charles II

50.

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

Montgomery, James