Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Allen, Woody

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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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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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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

William Shakespeare

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

Eliot, George

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Woody Allen

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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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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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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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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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

Edith Sitwell

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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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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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.