Motivational Quotes

Death

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

- Cocteau, Jean

Best Quotes about Death

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Luther, Martin

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

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

Forster, Edward M.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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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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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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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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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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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For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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

Woody Allen

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Woody Allen

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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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

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bertolt Brecht

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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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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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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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

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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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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

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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 we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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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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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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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

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Havner, Vance