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

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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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.

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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

Sophocles

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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 be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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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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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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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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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

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.