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

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Epicurus

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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

Beaumont, Francis

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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

11.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

12.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

14.

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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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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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 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

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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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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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Camus, Albert

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

William Shakespeare

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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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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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Eliot, George

33.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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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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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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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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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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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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These have not the hope to die.