Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Death

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

Manilius, Marcus

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

10.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

11.

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

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

Carson, Johnny

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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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

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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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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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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

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Horace

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

27.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.