Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Carson, Johnny

Best Quotes about Death

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Belloc, Hilaire

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Ken, Thomas

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

Randy K. Milholland

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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

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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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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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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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.

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Montgomery, James

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Butler, Samuel

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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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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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

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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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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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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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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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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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Plato