Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Palmerston, Lord

Best Quotes about Death

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

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

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.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

Allen, Woody

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

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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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

12.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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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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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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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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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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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.