Motivational Quotes

Death

He has gone over to the majority.

- Petronius

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Miller, Joaquin

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.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Eliot, George

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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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

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

Plato

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

Bayly, Joseph

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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

Bertolt Brecht

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Fromm, Erich

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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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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

31.

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

Havner, Vance

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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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

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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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

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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

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

Woody Allen

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph