Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Death

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Randy K. Milholland

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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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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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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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

Carson, Johnny

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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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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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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

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Barker, Clive

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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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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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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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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 worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Chandler, Raymond