Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Bronte, Emily

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

Bayly, Joseph

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Farber, Dave

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Young, Edward

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Frida Kahlo

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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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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Craig Volk

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

Allen, Woody

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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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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Death is the final wake-up call.