Motivational Quotes

Death

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Death

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Diderot, Denis

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

'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

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

Thrale, Hester i

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

12.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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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.

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

Macdonald, George

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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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

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

Forster, Edward M.

22.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Sophocles

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

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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

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

33.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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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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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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

Epictetus

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Butler, Samuel

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.