Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Best Quotes about Death

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

George Burns

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

Addison, Joseph

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Johnny Carson

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

Bright, Grant M.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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]

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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]

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

25.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Forster, Edward M.

28.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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32.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Foster, John W.

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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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

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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

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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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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De