Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

- Ellis, Alice Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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

Epictetus

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

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Hoffer, Eric

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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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

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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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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Bronte, Emily

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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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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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Epicurus

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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

Woody Allen

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

Duffecy, James

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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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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Randy K. Milholland

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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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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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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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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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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

Butler, Samuel

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Frida Kahlo

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.