Motivational Quotes

Death

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

- Bright, Grant M.

Best Quotes about Death

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.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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

Pamela Ribon

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

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

Farber, Dave

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

John Scalzi

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

Montgomery, James

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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

Randy K. Milholland

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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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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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

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

Hook, Sydney

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Byron, Lord

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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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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Carson, Johnny

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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

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