Motivational Quotes

Death

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

- Randy K. Milholland

Best Quotes about Death

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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

Beaumont, Francis

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.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Nepos, Cornelius

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Mann, Thomas

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Milton, John

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Young, Edward

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Diderot, Denis

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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