Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Ellis, Alice Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Mitford, William

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

Johnny Carson

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

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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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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

Bayly, Joseph

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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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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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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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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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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

Frost, Robert

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Auerbach, Red

35.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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 impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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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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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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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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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Bertolt Brecht

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet