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

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Addison, Joseph

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

10.

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

Eliot, George

11.

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.

12.

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

14.

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

17.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

18.

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

Horace

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

Plato

20.

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

Diderot, Denis

21.

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

22.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

23.

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

Oscar Wilde

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

25.

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

Palmerston, Lord

26.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

27.

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 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

29.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

30.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Becht, Ben

32.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

33.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

34.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

35.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

36.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

37.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

38.

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

George Burns

39.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

40.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

41.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

42.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

43.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

45.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

49.

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.

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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