Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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

Eliot, George

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Dickinson, Emily

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

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

Woody Allen

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Camus, Albert

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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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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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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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

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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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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 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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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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

Gide, Andre

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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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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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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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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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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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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

Bertolt Brecht

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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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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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

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.