Motivational Quotes

Death

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

- Moody, Dwight L.

Best Quotes about Death

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Sophocles

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

Hamilton, Hugh

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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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]

Bible

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

Bronte, Emily

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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

Craig Volk

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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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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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Macdonald, George

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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

Gide, Andre

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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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

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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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

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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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

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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

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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

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.