Motivational Quotes

Death

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Death

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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

Publilius Syrus

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

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

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

Young, Edward

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Johnny Carson

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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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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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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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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

18.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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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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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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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Miller, Joaquin

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

31.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Horace

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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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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

Barker, Clive

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

Plato

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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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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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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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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.

42.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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

Bible

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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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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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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