Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

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

Eliot, George

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

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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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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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Keats, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Aaron McGruder

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Gide, Andre

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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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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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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

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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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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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Craig Volk

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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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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

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