Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Death

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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

Johnny Carson

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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

Woody Allen

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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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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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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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]

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31.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Havner, Vance

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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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]

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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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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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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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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward