Motivational Quotes

Death

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

- Bagnold, Enid

Best Quotes about Death

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Marvell, Andrew

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

11.

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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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

13.

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.

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

15.

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

Allen, Woody

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

18.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

20.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

21.

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

Pamela Ribon

22.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

23.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Einstein, Albert

25.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

26.

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

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

28.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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

Bertolt Brecht

30.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

31.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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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

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

Havner, Vance

34.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Foster, John W.

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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

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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 report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Eliot, George

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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

Johnny Carson

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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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

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

Lucan, F. L.

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia