Motivational Quotes

Death

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

- Meredith, George

Best Quotes about Death

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

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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

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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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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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

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

Palmerston, Lord

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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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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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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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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

Horace

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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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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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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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

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

Young, Edward

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Barker, Clive

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.