Motivational Quotes

Death

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

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

Johnny Carson

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

William Shakespeare

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Keats, John

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

Mitford, William

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Fielding, Henry

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

24.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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

William Shakespeare

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

31.

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

Montgomery, James

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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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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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

40.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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.