Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bertolt Brecht

Best Quotes about Death

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

Craig Volk

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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

Horace

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Gide, Andre

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

Epictetus

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

10.

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

Edith Sitwell

11.

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

John Scalzi

12.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

13.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

19.

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.

20.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

Matt Frewer

22.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

24.

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

Cocteau, Jean

26.

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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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

Keats, John

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

Sophocles

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

34.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

35.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Carson, Johnny

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

42.

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

Bertolt Brecht

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

44.

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

William Shakespeare

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Forster, Edward M.

47.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

50.

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