Motivational Quotes

Death

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Death

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

Carson, Johnny

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

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

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Auerbach, Red

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Horace

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

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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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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

Hook, Sydney

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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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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

41.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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