Motivational Quotes

Death

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

- Henley, William Ernest

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

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

Ken, Thomas

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

10.

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

Farber, Dave

11.

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

Eliot, George

12.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

13.

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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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

17.

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

Macdonald, George

18.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

20.

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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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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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

25.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

26.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

27.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Plato

31.

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

Cocteau, Jean

32.

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

Picabia, Francis

33.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

34.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

44.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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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.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Thrale, Hester i

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

Woody Allen