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

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

Camus, Albert

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Bertolt Brecht

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

William Shakespeare

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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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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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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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Milton, John

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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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

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Allen, Woody

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.