Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Greene, Graham

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

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

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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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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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

16.

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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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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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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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

21.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

22.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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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

24.

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

Oscar Wilde

25.

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

26.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

27.

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

Young, Edward

28.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

29.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

30.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

31.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

32.

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

Dickinson, Emily

33.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

34.

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

35.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

36.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

37.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

38.

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

Epicurus

39.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

40.

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

Matt Frewer

41.

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

42.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

43.

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

44.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

46.

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

Bronte, Emily

47.

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

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

49.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

50.

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]

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