Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Carson, Johnny

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Pamela Ribon

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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.

10.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

11.

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

Epicurus

12.

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

Einstein, Albert

13.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

14.

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

Luther, Martin

15.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

16.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

18.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

19.

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

Fromm, Erich

20.

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.

21.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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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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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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

Macarthur, Douglas

26.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

A. Sachs

28.

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

Charles II

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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.

30.

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

Greene, Graham

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

Leonardo da Vinci

34.

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

Cocteau, Jean

35.

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

Dickinson, Emily

37.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

40.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

41.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

42.

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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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

44.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

45.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug