Motivational Quotes

Death

'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

Best Quotes about Death

'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

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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

Belloc, Hilaire

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Beaumont, Francis

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.

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

A. Sachs

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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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

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

Craig Volk

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

Bryant, William C.

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

George Burns

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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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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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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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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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Camus, Albert

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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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

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

Montgomery, James

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Farber, Dave

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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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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 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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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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