Motivational Quotes

Death

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Death

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

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

Charles II

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

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

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

Mann, Thomas

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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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'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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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Gray, Thomas

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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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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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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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Carson, Johnny

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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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

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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

Bronte, Emily

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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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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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

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

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