Motivational Quotes

Death

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Death

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Johnny Carson

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Nepos, Cornelius

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

10.

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

Havner, Vance

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

14.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

Plato

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

Marvell, Andrew

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

21.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Epicurus

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

Einstein, Albert

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

28.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Duffecy, James

35.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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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.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Barker, Clive

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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 is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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

Belloc, Hilaire