Motivational Quotes

Death

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Death

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

12.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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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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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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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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

Cocteau, Jean

19.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

William Shakespeare

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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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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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

30.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

31.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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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

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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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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Young, Edward

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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

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

45.

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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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia