Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Milton, John

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

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

Epicurus

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Haracourt, Edmond

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

10.

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

Plato

11.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

12.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

13.

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

Carson, Johnny

14.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

15.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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Hugh Elliott

17.

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

18.

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

19.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

23.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

24.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

25.

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

Hoffer, Eric

26.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

27.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

31.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

32.

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

Heidegger, Martin

33.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

35.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

36.

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

Johnny Carson

37.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

38.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

39.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

40.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

41.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

43.

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

44.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

45.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

46.

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

George Burns

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

49.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Allen, Woody