Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Johnny Carson

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

11.

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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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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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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

Epictetus

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

Plato

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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

18.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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

Butler, Samuel

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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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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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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

Lowell, James Russell

24.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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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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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

31.

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

Gide, Andre

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

Heidegger, Martin

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

41.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

43.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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