Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Cocteau, Jean

Best Quotes about Death

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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.

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

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

10.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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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

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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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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Randy K. Milholland

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Montgomery, James

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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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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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Macdonald, George

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

Woody Allen

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

Woody Allen

27.

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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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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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

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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

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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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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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Gide, Andre

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Butler, Samuel

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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