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

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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

Fielding, Henry

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Bronte, Emily

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Duffecy, James

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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

Butler, Samuel

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

A. Sachs

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

Bryant, William C.

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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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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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

Edith Sitwell

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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

William Shakespeare

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

Palmerston, Lord

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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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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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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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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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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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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.