Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Johnny Carson

Best Quotes about Death

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Hermes, Georg

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Einstein, Albert

10.

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

11.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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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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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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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

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Woody Allen

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Epicurus

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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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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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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

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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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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

Woody Allen

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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

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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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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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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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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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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Forster, Edward M.

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

Montesquieu, Charles 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