Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Death

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

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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

Thrale, Hester i

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

Camus, Albert

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

Foster, John W.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bible

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Barker, Clive

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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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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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Young, Edward

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Plato

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

Duffecy, James

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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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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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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo