Motivational Quotes

Death

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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.

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

Carson, Johnny

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

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Frida Kahlo

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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

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

18.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

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]

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Johnny Carson

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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.

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

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