Motivational Quotes

Death

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Death

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Woody Allen

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Keats, John

10.

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

Johnny Carson

11.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hubbard, Kin

14.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Bible

16.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

20.

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

21.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

22.

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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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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

25.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

26.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

27.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

28.

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

Bacon, Francis

29.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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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

32.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

34.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

Nepos, Cornelius

36.

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

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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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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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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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Baldwin, James

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth