Motivational Quotes

Death

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

- Allen, Woody

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

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Lowell, James Russell

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Ken, Thomas

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

Luther, Martin

10.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

11.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

12.

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

13.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

14.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

15.

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.

16.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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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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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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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

21.

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 never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

23.

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 eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Publilius Syrus

26.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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

28.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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

30.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

31.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

32.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

33.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

34.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

35.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

36.

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

Cocteau, Jean

37.

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

Hazlitt, William

38.

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

Bright, Grant M.

39.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

40.

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

Heidegger, Martin

41.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

43.

'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

44.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

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

Duffecy, James

46.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Butler, Samuel

48.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

49.

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

Farber, Dave

50.

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