Motivational Quotes

Death

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

- Gabrielle Zevin

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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

Aaron McGruder

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

Frida Kahlo

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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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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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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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johnny Carson

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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

Macdonald, George

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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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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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

Keats, John

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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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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

Craig Volk

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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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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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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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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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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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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann