Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- 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

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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

Auerbach, Red

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Camus, Albert

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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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 killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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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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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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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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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Young, Edward

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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

Publilius Syrus

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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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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

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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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

Allen, Woody

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

Gray, Thomas

40.

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

Johnny Carson

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

42.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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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

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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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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