Motivational Quotes

Death

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Death

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

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.

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

Eliot, George

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ann Radcliffe

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Hamilton, Hugh

10.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

11.

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.

12.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

13.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

14.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

15.

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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16.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

17.

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

18.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

19.

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

20.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

21.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

22.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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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

24.

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

25.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

26.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

27.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

28.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

29.

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

30.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

31.

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

Horace

32.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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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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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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]

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38.

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

Lowell, James Russell

39.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

40.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

41.

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

Berra, Yogi

42.

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

Bright, Grant M.

43.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

44.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

45.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

48.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

49.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

50.

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