Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Carson, Johnny

Best Quotes about Death

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

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

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

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

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Duffecy, James

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

11.

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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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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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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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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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

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Horace

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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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 hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.