Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Duffecy, James

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Picabia, Francis

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

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

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

10.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

11.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

12.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

13.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

16.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

18.

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

19.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

22.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

23.

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

Luther, Martin

24.

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

Fielding, Henry

25.

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

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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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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

28.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

29.

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.

30.

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

Camus, Albert

32.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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 golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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

A. Sachs

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

43.

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

44.

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

Horace

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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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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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

Keats, John

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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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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles