Motivational Quotes

Death

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Death

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Eliot, George

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

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Bertolt Brecht

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

11.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

12.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

21.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

22.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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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

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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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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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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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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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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