Motivational Quotes

Death

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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

Auerbach, Red

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

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Horace

10.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

11.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

19.

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

Frida Kahlo

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Keats, John

27.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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

Woody Allen

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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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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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

36.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Einstein, Albert

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

41.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

42.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

43.

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

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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Horace

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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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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II