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

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

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

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

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

Hamilton, Hugh

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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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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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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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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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.

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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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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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Woody Allen

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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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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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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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

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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.

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

Bacon, Francis

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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.

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

Woody Allen

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

Gray, Thomas

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell