Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Horace

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Epicurus

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Eliot, George

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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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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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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

Woody Allen

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Oscar Wilde

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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

Beaumont, Francis

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Randy K. Milholland

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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

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Havner, Vance