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

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

18.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

19.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

20.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

22.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

23.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

24.

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

Eliot, George

25.

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

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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 destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

28.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

29.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

30.

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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

32.

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

Frida Kahlo

33.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

34.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

35.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

36.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

37.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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

41.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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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.

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

Bible

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

45.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.