Motivational Quotes

Death

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Death

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

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.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

10.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

11.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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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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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

15.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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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 want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

19.

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

Macdonald, George

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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

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

23.

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.

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

Horace

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Ken, Thomas

29.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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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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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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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

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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.