Motivational Quotes

Death

We are all dead men on leave.

- Levine, Eugene

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Hazlitt, William

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

Lee, Nathaniel

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

10.

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

11.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, 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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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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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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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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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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

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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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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

28.

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

Thrale, Hester i

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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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

33.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Young, Edward

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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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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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

A. Sachs

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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.