Motivational Quotes

Death

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

- Khayyam, Omar

Best Quotes about Death

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

Epicurus

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

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

Gray, Thomas

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

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

Young, Edward

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Canetti, Elias

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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

11.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

12.

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

Carson, Johnny

13.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

14.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Heidegger, Martin

20.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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

22.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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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

25.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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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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

28.

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

29.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

30.

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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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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

Woody Allen

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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

35.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

36.

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

Darrow, Clarence

37.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

40.

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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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

42.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

45.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

49.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland