Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Death

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

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

Frost, Robert

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Addison, Joseph

10.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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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

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

17.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Heidegger, Martin

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

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

Eliot, George

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Publilius Syrus

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

31.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

32.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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

Ken, Thomas

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

38.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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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

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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