Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bryant, William C.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Butler, Samuel

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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

Allen, Woody

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

10.

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

Camus, Albert

11.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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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

13.

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

Horace

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

19.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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

Hook, Sydney

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

26.

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

Macdonald, George

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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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

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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

37.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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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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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

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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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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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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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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