Motivational Quotes

Death

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

- Haracourt, Edmond

Best Quotes about Death

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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.

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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

William Shakespeare

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

Allen, Woody

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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

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

Samuel Goldwyn

11.

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

Woody Allen

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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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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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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

22.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

31.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

35.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Byron, Lord

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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

40.

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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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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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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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

Bacon, Francis