Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Browne, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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

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

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

Byron, Lord

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

Macdonald, George

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Plato

10.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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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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For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

24.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Woody Allen

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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Craig Volk

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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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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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

43.

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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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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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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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.