Motivational Quotes

Death

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

- Healey, Thomas F.

Best Quotes about Death

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

William Shakespeare

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

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Fromm, Erich

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

10.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

11.

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

Becht, Ben

12.

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

Hoffer, Eric

13.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

14.

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

Bertolt Brecht

15.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Gide, Andre

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

Eliot, George

18.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Samuel Goldwyn

24.

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

25.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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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

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

29.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

30.

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

Gray, Thomas

31.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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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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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

37.

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

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

Butler, Samuel

39.

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

40.

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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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

42.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott