Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Sophocles

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

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

Craig Volk

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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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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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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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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Eliot, George

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Fielding, Henry

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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 pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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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

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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

Lowell, James Russell

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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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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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

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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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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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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.