Motivational Quotes

Death

'Tis after death that we measure men.

- Hope, James Barron

Best Quotes about Death

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

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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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Plato

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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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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

23.

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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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

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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

Macdonald, George

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

Bayly, Joseph

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

41.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

Allen, Woody

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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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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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