Motivational Quotes

Death

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Death

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Butler, Samuel

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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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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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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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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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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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Butler, Samuel

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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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.