Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Luther, Martin

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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

Foster, John W.

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Becht, Ben

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

Butler, Samuel

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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 destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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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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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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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 may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Farber, Dave

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Johnny Carson

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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 fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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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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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Ken, Thomas

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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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

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry