Motivational Quotes

Death

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about 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

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

Dickinson, Emily

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Butler, Samuel

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

Randy K. Milholland

10.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

11.

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

A. Sachs

12.

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

Ken, Thomas

13.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

14.

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

15.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

16.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

17.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

18.

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

Mitford, William

19.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

20.

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

Farber, Dave

21.

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

Johnny Carson

22.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

23.

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

Horace

24.

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

25.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

26.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

27.

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

Camus, Albert

28.

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

29.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

30.

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

31.

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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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.

33.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

34.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

35.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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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

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

Horace

38.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

39.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

40.

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

Eliot, George

41.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

42.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

43.

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

44.

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

45.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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

Luther, Martin

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]