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

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

Young, Edward

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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]

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Montgomery, James

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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.

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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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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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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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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

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20.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Gide, Andre

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

Johnny Carson

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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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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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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Horace

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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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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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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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 world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Ken, Thomas

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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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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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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

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus