Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

A. Sachs

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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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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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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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Ken, Thomas

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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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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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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Horace

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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]

Bible

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

George Burns

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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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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

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

John Scalzi

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