Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Carson, Johnny

Best Quotes about Death

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Montgomery, James

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.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Epicurus

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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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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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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

Dickinson, Emily

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Horace

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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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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.