Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Randy K. Milholland

Best Quotes about Death

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

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

Hook, Sydney

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

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

Craig Volk

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

Bible

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

10.

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

Woody Allen

11.

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

12.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Forster, Edward M.

14.

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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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

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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

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

18.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

19.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

20.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

21.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

22.

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

Barker, Clive

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

24.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

25.

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

Epicurus

26.

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

Bible

27.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

28.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

29.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

30.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

31.

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

Hoffer, Eric

32.

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

33.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

34.

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

35.

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

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

37.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.