Motivational Quotes

Death

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

- Chandler, Raymond

Best Quotes about Death

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

Horace

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Bryant, William C.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Bronte, Emily

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Palmerston, Lord

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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

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

Forster, Edward M.

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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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Chandler, Raymond

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

Mann, Thomas

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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 killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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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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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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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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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

George Burns

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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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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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He has gone over to the majority.