Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

- Man, Paul De

Best Quotes about Death

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

Keats, John

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bacon, Francis

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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 is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

10.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

11.

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

Horace

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

15.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

16.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

17.

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

18.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

19.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

20.

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

Picabia, Francis

21.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

22.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

Bertolt Brecht

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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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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

28.

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

Matt Frewer

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

34.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Woody Allen

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

Fielding, Henry

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Montgomery, James

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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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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen