Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

10.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

11.

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

Einstein, Albert

12.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

14.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

15.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

16.

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

Milton, John

17.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

18.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

19.

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

Palmerston, Lord

20.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

21.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

22.

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

Bertolt Brecht

25.

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

Mitford, William

27.

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

28.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

29.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

30.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

31.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

33.

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

34.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

37.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

38.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

39.

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

40.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

Luther, Martin

43.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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