Motivational Quotes

Death

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

- Penn, William

Best Quotes about Death

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

Carson, Johnny

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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

Bronte, Emily

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

10.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

11.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

12.

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

Dryden, John

13.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

15.

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

Matt Frewer

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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

18.

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

Fromm, Erich

19.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

20.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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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

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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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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

25.

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

Miller, Joaquin

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bible

30.

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

Oscar Wilde

31.

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

Havner, Vance

32.

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

Gray, Thomas

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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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 never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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

Manilius, Marcus

40.

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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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

44.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

45.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Duffecy, James

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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.