Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

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

Beaumont, Francis

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

10.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

11.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

12.

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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Bacon, Francis

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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

A. Sachs

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Allen, Woody

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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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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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

Hook, Sydney

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

33.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

34.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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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

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

Mitford, William

42.

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

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

46.

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

Berra, Yogi

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De