Motivational Quotes

Death

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Death

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Leonardo da Vinci

10.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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.

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

Palmerston, Lord

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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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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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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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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'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

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

William Shakespeare

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

29.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Canetti, Elias

33.

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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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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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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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thrale, Hester i

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Manilius, Marcus

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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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

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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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 Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah