Motivational Quotes

Death

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

- Pamela Ribon

Best Quotes about Death

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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

Lowell, James Russell

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Diderot, Denis

10.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Fielding, Henry

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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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

20.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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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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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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

Allen, Woody

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

25.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

26.

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

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

28.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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

30.

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

Carson, Johnny

31.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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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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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

38.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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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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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

Epictetus

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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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

47.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

48.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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