Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Carson, Johnny

Best Quotes about Death

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Butler, Samuel

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Keats, John

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

10.

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

Randy K. Milholland

11.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

12.

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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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

14.

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

Duffecy, James

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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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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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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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

Ken, Thomas

20.

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

Bryant, William C.

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

24.

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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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

27.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

28.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Becht, Ben

30.

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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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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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

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

Hook, Sydney

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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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

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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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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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

40.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

41.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.