Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Carson, Johnny

Best Quotes about Death

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Gray, Thomas

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Dyer, Wayne

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Becht, Ben

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, 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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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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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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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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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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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.

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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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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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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.