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

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

Greene, Graham

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

David Assael

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

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

A. Sachs

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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

Picabia, Francis

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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

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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

14.

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

Montgomery, James

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

Carson, Johnny

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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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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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

Johnny Carson

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Euripides

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

Woody Allen

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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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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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Kocher, Gerhard

39.

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

Publilius Syrus

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Becht, Ben

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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'Tis after death that we measure men.