Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Epicurus

Best Quotes about Death

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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

Butler, Samuel

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

11.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

12.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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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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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

21.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Craig Volk

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

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

Bible

28.

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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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Bible

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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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

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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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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

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Epicurus

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

Johnny Carson

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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He has gone over to the majority.