Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Havner, Vance

Best Quotes about Death

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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

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

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

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Bible

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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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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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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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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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

28.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Publilius Syrus

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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

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

Epictetus

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

Edith Sitwell

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Landor, Walter Savage