Motivational Quotes

Death

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Death

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Epicurus

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hazlitt, William

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

10.

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

11.

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

Macdonald, George

12.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

13.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Butler, Samuel

15.

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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

20.

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

Allen, Woody

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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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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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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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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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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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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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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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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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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]

Bible

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

Bertolt Brecht

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

34.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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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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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Becht, Ben

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Duffecy, James