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

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

Allen, Woody

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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

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

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Butler, Samuel

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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 final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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

Beaumont, Francis

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Fromm, Erich

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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 not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Bayly, Joseph

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

Donne, John

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

Canetti, Elias

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

William Shakespeare

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

Publilius Syrus

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

Hook, Sydney

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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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.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William