Motivational Quotes

Death

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

- Allen, Fred A.

Best Quotes about Death

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Johnny Carson

10.

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

11.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

14.

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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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

16.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

18.

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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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

20.

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

Bronte, Emily

21.

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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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

25.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Butler, Samuel

28.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

29.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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

Woody Allen

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

Bible

44.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Bright, Grant M.

48.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

49.

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