Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Craig Volk

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Horace

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

17.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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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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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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

Craig Volk

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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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]

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

Gray, Thomas

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

Young, Edward

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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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.