Motivational Quotes

Death

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

- John Scalzi

Best Quotes about Death

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

Picabia, Francis

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

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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

Milton, John

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

Craig Volk

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

10.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

11.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

12.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

13.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

14.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

15.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

17.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

18.

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

19.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

20.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

21.

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

22.

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

Johnny Carson

23.

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

Bayly, Joseph

24.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

26.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

27.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

28.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

29.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

31.

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

32.

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

George Burns

33.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

34.

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

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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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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

38.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

39.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

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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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

43.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Eliot, George

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

La Bruyere, Jean De