Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Duffecy, James

Best Quotes about Death

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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

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

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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

11.

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

Woody Allen

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

18.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Fielding, Henry

20.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

22.

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

Hook, Sydney

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

Manilius, Marcus

24.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

Mann, Thomas

30.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

31.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

32.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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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

40.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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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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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

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

44.

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

Matt Frewer

45.

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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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.