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

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

'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

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Montgomery, James

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Donne, John

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

Camus, Albert

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

Eliot, George

11.

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

12.

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

Bertolt Brecht

13.

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

Woody Allen

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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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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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.

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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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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

20.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Eliot, George

40.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

43.

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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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Greene, Graham

46.

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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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

50.

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