Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Becht, Ben

Best Quotes about Death

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Carson, Johnny

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Hook, Sydney

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

10.

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

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11.

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

Auden, W. H.

12.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

13.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

14.

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

Woody Allen

15.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

16.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

Woody Allen

21.

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

Lucan, F. L.

22.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

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

Canetti, Elias

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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

27.

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

Johnny Carson

28.

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

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29.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

30.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

31.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

32.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

33.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

34.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

35.

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

36.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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

38.

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

Randy K. Milholland

39.

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

40.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

41.

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

Einstein, Albert

42.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

43.

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

44.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

45.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

46.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

47.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

48.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel