Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Edith Sitwell

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

Butler, Samuel

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Woody Allen

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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

23.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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.

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Bible

31.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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

Randy K. Milholland

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

40.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

Allen, Woody

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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

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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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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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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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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!