Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the final wake-up call.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Death

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Montgomery, James

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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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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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

Milton, John

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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

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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 not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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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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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 death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

25.

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

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

27.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

28.

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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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Young, Edward

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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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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Becht, Ben

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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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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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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

43.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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

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

Fromm, Erich

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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

48.

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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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid