Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bagnold, Enid

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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

Marvell, Andrew

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Carson, Johnny

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Johnny Carson

11.

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

Chandler, Raymond

12.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

15.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

20.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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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

24.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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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

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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

Dryden, John

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

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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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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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'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

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

Craig Volk

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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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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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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

Plato

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Darrow, Clarence

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