Motivational Quotes

Death

Life is a loss of time.

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Death

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Camus, Albert

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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

12.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

William Shakespeare

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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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Gide, Andre

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

Picabia, Francis

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

24.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

A. Sachs

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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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

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

Hook, Sydney

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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A useless life is an early death.