Motivational Quotes

Death

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Death

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

Picabia, Francis

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

Moody, Dwight L.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Pamela Ribon

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

14.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Dryden, John

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

Hubbard, Kin

18.

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

Berra, Yogi

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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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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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

30.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

31.

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

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

Hendrix, Jimi

34.

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

Randy K. Milholland

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

40.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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

Bible

46.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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