Motivational Quotes

Death

'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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Addison, Joseph

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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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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

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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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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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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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

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

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

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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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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 really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Epicurus

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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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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Young, Edward

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Butler, Samuel

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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