Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the cure for all diseases.

- Browne, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Woody Allen

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Randy K. Milholland

10.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

11.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Woody Allen

18.

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

Craig Volk

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

Gide, Andre

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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 enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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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

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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

Palmerston, Lord

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Canetti, Elias

39.

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

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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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

43.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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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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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Picabia, Francis

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita