Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Death

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

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

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Publilius Syrus

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]

Bible

10.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

11.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

12.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

15.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

16.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

17.

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

Bertolt Brecht

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

22.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

23.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

25.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

26.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

27.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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

29.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

30.

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

Farber, Dave

31.

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

Gide, Andre

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.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

34.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

37.

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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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

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

41.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

43.

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

Carson, Johnny

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

45.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Marvell, Andrew

47.

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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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Dryden, John