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

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

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

Hendrix, Jimi

10.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

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

Bacon, Francis

12.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

13.

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

14.

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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15.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

16.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

17.

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

Lowell, James Russell

18.

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

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19.

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

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

21.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

22.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

23.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

25.

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

Montgomery, James

26.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

27.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

28.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

29.

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

Allen, Woody

30.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

31.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

33.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

34.

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

George Burns

35.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

36.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

37.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

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38.

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.

Donne, John

39.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

40.

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

41.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

44.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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]

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46.

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

Randy K. Milholland

47.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

48.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

49.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.