Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Bertolt Brecht

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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

13.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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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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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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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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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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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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

Heidegger, Martin

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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

Milton, John

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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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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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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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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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

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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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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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Bryant, William C.

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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

Hook, Sydney

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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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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.