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 want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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

Frida Kahlo

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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

Bayly, Joseph

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

10.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

11.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

12.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

Randy K. Milholland

18.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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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

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

Publilius Syrus

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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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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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

34.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

35.

'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

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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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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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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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 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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

43.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

47.

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

Woody Allen

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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