Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Browne, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

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

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Bagnold, Enid

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

10.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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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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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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Dickinson, Emily

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

16.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

18.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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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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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Picabia, Francis

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

Fromm, Erich

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Allen, Woody

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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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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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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