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

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.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

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

Canetti, Elias

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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

Bayly, Joseph

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

11.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

12.

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

13.

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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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

15.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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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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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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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

20.

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

Carson, Johnny

21.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

22.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

24.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

25.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

26.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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

Horace

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

31.

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

32.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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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

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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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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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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

39.

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

Eliot, George

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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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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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

44.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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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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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

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

Berra, Yogi

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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

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard