Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Bacon, Francis

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

10.

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

11.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

12.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

13.

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

Horace

15.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

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

Fielding, Henry

17.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

20.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

21.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Lowell, James Russell

23.

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

24.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

25.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

27.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

28.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

29.

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

Foster, John W.

30.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

31.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

32.

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

Frost, Robert

33.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

35.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

39.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

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

Pamela Ribon

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Craig Volk

44.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

45.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

46.

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

49.

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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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