Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the cure for all diseases.

- Browne, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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

10.

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.

11.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Farber, Dave

13.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

14.

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

15.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

16.

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

Byron, Lord

17.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

18.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

19.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

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

21.

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

22.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

23.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

24.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

25.

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

Bacon, Francis

26.

'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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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

28.

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

Beaumont, Francis

29.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

30.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

31.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

32.

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

Camus, Albert

33.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

34.

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

Hook, Sydney

35.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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

37.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

38.

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

39.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

40.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

41.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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

43.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

44.

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

45.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

46.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

47.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

48.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

49.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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