Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- A. Sachs

Best Quotes about Death

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

Johnny Carson

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

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Diderot, Denis

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

12.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

14.

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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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Woody Allen

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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

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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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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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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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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Gide, Andre

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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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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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

43.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

44.

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.

45.

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

Euripides

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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

Butler, Samuel

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, 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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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.