Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the cure for all diseases.

- Browne, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

11.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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

Eliot, George

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

19.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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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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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Farber, Dave

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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 should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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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's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

28.

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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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Matt Frewer

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Charles II

45.

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

46.

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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'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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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.