Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hook, Sydney

Best Quotes about Death

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

David Assael

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

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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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

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

Horace

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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

Dryden, John

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Auden, W. H.

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Farber, Dave

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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

Hook, Sydney

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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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

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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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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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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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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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

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

Fromm, Erich

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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 the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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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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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat