Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Browne, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

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

Woody Allen

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

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

10.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

15.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

16.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

17.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

21.

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

Lowell, James Russell

22.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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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

24.

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

Sophocles

25.

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

26.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

27.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

28.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

29.

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

30.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

31.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

32.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

33.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

34.

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

Canetti, Elias

35.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

36.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

37.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

38.

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

39.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

40.

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

41.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

42.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

43.

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

Pamela Ribon

44.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

45.

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

Bayly, Joseph

46.

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

Fielding, Henry

47.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

48.

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.

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

50.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales