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'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Lee, Nathaniel

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Farber, Dave

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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

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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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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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

Ken, Thomas

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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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 has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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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 words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

Plato

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Marvell, Andrew

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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

Thrale, Hester i

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

Allen, Woody