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

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Fielding, Henry

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

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

W. Somerset Maugham

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Canetti, Elias

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Ann Radcliffe

12.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.

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

Picabia, Francis

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

18.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

26.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

27.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

28.

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

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Foster, John W.

33.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

34.

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

Bayly, Joseph

35.

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

36.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Hazlitt, William

38.

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

Bible

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

40.

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

41.

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

46.

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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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

49.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Cervantes, Miguel De