Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Lee, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Death

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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

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

Johnny Carson

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Marvell, Andrew

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

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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

14.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Carson, Johnny

16.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Woody Allen

18.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

19.

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

Plato

20.

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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

22.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

24.

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

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

27.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Horace

30.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

31.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

32.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

33.

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

A. Sachs

34.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

35.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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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

38.

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

Craig Volk

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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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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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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]

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Auden, W. H.

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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