Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Haracourt, Edmond

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bryant, William C.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

10.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

11.

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

12.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

13.

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

Gide, Andre

14.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

15.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

16.

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

17.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

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

19.

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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'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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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

22.

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

23.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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

Hook, Sydney

25.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

28.

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

Picabia, Francis

29.

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

30.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

31.

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

Palmerston, Lord

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

34.

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

35.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

36.

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

Addison, Joseph

37.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

38.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

39.

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

Camus, Albert

40.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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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

42.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

43.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

44.

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.

45.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

46.

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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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

49.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

50.

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

Craig Volk