Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Death

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

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Craig Volk

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.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Johnny Carson

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

10.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

11.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

12.

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

Randy K. Milholland

13.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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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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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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

Bayly, Joseph

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Dryden, John