Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

- Man, Paul De

Best Quotes about Death

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

Dryden, John

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

John Scalzi

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

Epictetus

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

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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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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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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

Auden, W. H.

20.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

26.

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

Randy K. Milholland

27.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

28.

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

Luther, Martin

29.

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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

Heidegger, Martin

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

34.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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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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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Havner, Vance

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