Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Camus, Albert

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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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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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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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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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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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Edith Sitwell

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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

27.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Picabia, Francis

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Keats, John

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

Eliot, George

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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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