Motivational Quotes

Death

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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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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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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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 we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

Keats, John

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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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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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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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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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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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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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

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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

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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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 doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

Craig Volk

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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.