Motivational Quotes

Death

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

- Cocteau, Jean

Best Quotes about Death

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Allen, Woody

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bacon, Francis

10.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

11.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

12.

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

13.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

17.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

20.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

22.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

25.

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

Gide, Andre

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

27.

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

Bertolt Brecht

28.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Berra, Yogi

30.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

31.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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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

33.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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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

35.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

Johnny Carson

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

41.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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43.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Allen, Woody

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

Duffecy, James

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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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

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

Diderot, Denis