Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Death

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

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

Allen, Woody

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

10.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

11.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

12.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

13.

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

Bayly, Joseph

14.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

15.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

16.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Bertolt Brecht

21.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

22.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

24.

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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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

26.

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

Stephanie Klein

27.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

28.

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

Young, Edward

29.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

30.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

31.

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

32.

'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

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

Hoffer, Eric

34.

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

Hazlitt, William

35.

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

Dickinson, Emily

36.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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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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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

40.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Camus, Albert

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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

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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

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

48.

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

Bryant, William C.

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.