Motivational Quotes

Death

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

- Thrale, Hester i

Best Quotes about Death

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

Horace

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

Woody Allen

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

Plato

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

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

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

A. Sachs

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

10.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

11.

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

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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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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

15.

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

Becht, Ben

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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 pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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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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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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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

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

William Shakespeare

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

30.

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Lowell, James Russell

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

33.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

35.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Luther, Martin

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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 natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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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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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

49.

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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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