Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Haracourt, Edmond

Best Quotes about Death

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Sophocles

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

10.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

11.

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

12.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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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

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

William Shakespeare

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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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 has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

32.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

33.

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

34.

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

Farber, Dave

35.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

38.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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

40.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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

Dryden, John