Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Frida Kahlo

Best Quotes about Death

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Charles II

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Woody Allen

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

11.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Eliot, George

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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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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Forster, Edward M.

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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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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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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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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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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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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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Allen, Woody

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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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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Marvell, Andrew

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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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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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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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.