Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Horace

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

Keats, John

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

Hook, Sydney

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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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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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

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Johnny Carson

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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.

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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, 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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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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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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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Gide, Andre

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

Palmerston, Lord

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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