Motivational Quotes

Death

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

- Berger, John

Best Quotes about Death

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

Montgomery, James

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

10.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

12.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Johnny Carson

14.

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.

15.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

16.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Foster, John W.

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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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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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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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

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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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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Woody Allen

40.

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

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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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

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Publilius Syrus