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

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

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

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

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.

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

Addison, Joseph

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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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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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Fromm, Erich

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Eliot, George

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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

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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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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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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 a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Eliot, George

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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

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

Miller, Joaquin

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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 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

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

Woody Allen

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh