Motivational Quotes

Death

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

- Lewis, C. S.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Woody Allen

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

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

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

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

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

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

Fromm, Erich

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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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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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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

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Cocteau, Jean

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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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]

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Keats, John

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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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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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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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

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

Bronte, Emily

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

A. Sachs

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

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