Motivational Quotes

Death

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Auerbach, Red

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Ken, Thomas

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Woody Allen

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Eliot, George

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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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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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

30.

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

Bible

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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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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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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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

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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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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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

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

Frida Kahlo

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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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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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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