Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Berra, Yogi

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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

Randy K. Milholland

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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

Bayly, Joseph

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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

Allen, Woody

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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Death doesn't frighten me.