Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the cure for all diseases.

- Browne, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

Greene, Graham

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

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bible

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

Lowell, James Russell

11.

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

12.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

13.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

14.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

15.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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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

17.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

19.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

20.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

21.

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

Donne, John

22.

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

25.

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

Bible

26.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

27.

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

28.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

29.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

33.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

34.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

36.

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

Oscar Wilde

37.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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

39.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

40.

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

Euripides

41.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

42.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

43.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

44.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

45.

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

46.

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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'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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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

49.

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

Milton, John

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid