Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Carson, Johnny

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

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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.

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

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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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

12.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

16.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

17.

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

Oscar Wilde

18.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

19.

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

Havner, Vance

20.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

21.

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

Montgomery, James

22.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

23.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Eliot, George

28.

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

Horace

29.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

30.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

34.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

35.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

36.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

41.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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