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

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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

Matt Frewer

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Randy K. Milholland

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Canetti, Elias

11.

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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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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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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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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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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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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

Edith Sitwell

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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

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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

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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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

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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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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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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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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'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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Butler, Samuel

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Allen, Woody

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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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