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

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Becht, Ben

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 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

10.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

11.

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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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

Eliot, George

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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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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 as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

18.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

19.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

20.

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

Greene, Graham

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

24.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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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

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

27.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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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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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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Bayly, Joseph

35.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

36.

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

Palmerston, Lord

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Hermes, Georg

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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

41.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

42.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

44.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Bertolt Brecht

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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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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

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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

49.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

50.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho