Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Cocteau, Jean

Best Quotes about Death

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

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

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Publilius Syrus

13.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

14.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

15.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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

18.

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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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

20.

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

Keats, John

21.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

A. Sachs

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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

26.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

Woody Allen

28.

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

29.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

30.

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

Heidegger, Martin

31.

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

Addison, Joseph

32.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

33.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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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

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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

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

40.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

46.

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

Gide, Andre

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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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

49.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

W. Somerset Maugham