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

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

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Carson, Johnny

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Bagnold, Enid

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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

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Bryant, William C.

18.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Edith Sitwell

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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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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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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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

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

Eliot, George

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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

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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.

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

40.

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

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Auerbach, Red

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Oscar Wilde

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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

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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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