Motivational Quotes

Death

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

- Dowell, Coleman

Best Quotes about Death

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

Keats, John

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

10.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

11.

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

Lowell, James Russell

12.

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

Frida Kahlo

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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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

19.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

20.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

A. Sachs

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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

Montgomery, James

24.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

25.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

27.

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

Manilius, Marcus

28.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

29.

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

Duffecy, James

30.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Hook, Sydney

33.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

35.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

36.

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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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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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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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

42.

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

Craig Volk

43.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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

Barker, Clive

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

48.

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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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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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