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

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

Ken, Thomas

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

Charles II

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

Dyer, Wayne

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

10.

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

Bryant, William C.

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

13.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

14.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

15.

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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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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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

18.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

19.

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

20.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

21.

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

22.

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

23.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

24.

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

Darrow, Clarence

25.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

26.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

29.

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

Johnny Carson

30.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

31.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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

35.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

37.

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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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Duffecy, James

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

41.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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.

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

Bronte, Emily

44.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

45.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

47.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.