Motivational Quotes

Death

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Death

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

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

Allen, Woody

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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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

11.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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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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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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

William Shakespeare

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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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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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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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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Foster, John W.

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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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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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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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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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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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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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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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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Montgomery, James

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Craig Volk

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles