Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Best Quotes about Death

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.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

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

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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bryant, William C.

21.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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

Manilius, Marcus

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Hazlitt, William

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Young, Edward

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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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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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

Horace

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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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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Farber, Dave

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage