Motivational Quotes

Death

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Death

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

Johnny Carson

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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

Matt Frewer

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

Stephanie Klein

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

Thrale, Hester i

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

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Aaron McGruder

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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

Randy K. Milholland

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Woody Allen

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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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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Eliot, George

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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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

27.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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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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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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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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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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