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

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

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Bright, Grant M.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Mitford, William

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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

11.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

12.

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

Farber, Dave

13.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

14.

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

Hook, Sydney

15.

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

Plato

16.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

18.

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

Darrow, Clarence

19.

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

20.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

21.

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

Picabia, Francis

22.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

24.

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

25.

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

26.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

27.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

28.

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

29.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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

31.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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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

33.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

34.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

35.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

36.

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

Hazlitt, William

37.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Keats, John

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

Aaron McGruder

41.

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

42.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

43.

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

44.

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

Mann, Thomas

45.

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

Barker, Clive

46.

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

Gide, Andre

47.

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

Fielding, Henry

48.

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

49.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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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