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

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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.

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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

Allen, Woody

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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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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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's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Lucan, F. L.

37.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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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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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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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

45.

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.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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 pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.