Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Carson, Johnny

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Dryden, John

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Dryden, John

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

10.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

11.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

12.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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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 eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Macdonald, George

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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

21.

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.

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

34.

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

Johnny Carson

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

Berra, Yogi

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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