Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Death

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

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

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

Allen, Woody

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

Johnny Carson

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Carson, Johnny

10.

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

11.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

12.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

13.

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

A. Sachs

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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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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

17.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

18.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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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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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Plato

24.

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

Charles II

25.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

26.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

27.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Horace

33.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

34.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

35.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Randy K. Milholland

37.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

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 fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

40.

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

Butler, Samuel

41.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

42.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

Belloc, Hilaire

45.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

48.

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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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell