Motivational Quotes

Death

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

- Berra, Yogi

Best Quotes about Death

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Aaron McGruder

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

Bagnold, Enid

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

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

10.

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

Becht, Ben

11.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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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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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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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

16.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

17.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

18.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Eliot, George

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

Miller, Joaquin

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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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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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

31.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

32.

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

Johnny Carson

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

Fromm, Erich

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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

35.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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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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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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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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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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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

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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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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

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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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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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel