Motivational Quotes

Death

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

- Broch, Hermann

Best Quotes about Death

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

A. Sachs

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Bible

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

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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 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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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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

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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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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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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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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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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

Palmerston, Lord

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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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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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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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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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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Picabia, Francis

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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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

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

Canetti, Elias

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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