Motivational Quotes

Death

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

- Lutzer, Erwin W.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Montgomery, James

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

Matt Frewer

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bible

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

10.

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

Picabia, Francis

11.

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

12.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

13.

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

Woody Allen

14.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

16.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

17.

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

18.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

19.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

20.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

21.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

22.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

23.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

24.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

25.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bible

27.

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

Plato

28.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

29.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

30.

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

John Scalzi

31.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

32.

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

Cocteau, Jean

33.

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]

Bible

34.

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

35.

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

Byron, Lord

36.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

37.

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

Epictetus

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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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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

40.

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

Hook, Sydney

42.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

44.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Publilius Syrus

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

48.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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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