Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about 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

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Woody Allen

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

10.

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

Butler, Samuel

11.

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

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Becht, Ben

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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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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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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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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

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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

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

Cocteau, Jean

25.

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

Frida Kahlo

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Horace

30.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

31.

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

Mann, Thomas

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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

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

Samuel Goldwyn

36.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Craig Volk

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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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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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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada