Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Death

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Publilius Syrus

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Barker, Clive

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

10.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

11.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

12.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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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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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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.

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

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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 not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Young, Edward

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

Woody Allen

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye