Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Woody Allen

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

Allen, Woody

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

Lowell, James Russell

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.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bronte, Emily

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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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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Horace

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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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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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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

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Duffecy, James

26.

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

Woody Allen

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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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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

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

Diderot, Denis

30.

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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

35.

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

Bible

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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

38.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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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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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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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

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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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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Edith Sitwell