Motivational Quotes

Death

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Belloc, Hilaire

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

John Scalzi

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

10.

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

Ken, Thomas

11.

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

Forster, Edward M.

12.

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

Butler, Samuel

13.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

14.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

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

Thrale, Hester i

16.

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

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

21.

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

Randy K. Milholland

22.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

23.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

24.

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

Eliot, George

25.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

26.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

27.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

28.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

29.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

30.

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

31.

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

Mann, Thomas

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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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

34.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

35.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

37.

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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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

43.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

45.

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

Fromm, Erich

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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

David Assael

48.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

49.

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

50.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert