Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

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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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

11.

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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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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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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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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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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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

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Barker, Clive

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

27.

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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Dryden, John

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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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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

Bagnold, Enid

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

Publilius Syrus

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

Bible

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

46.

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

47.

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

Bible

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.