Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Johnny Carson

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

A. Sachs

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

11.

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

Ken, Thomas

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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

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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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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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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

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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

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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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Horace

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Picabia, Francis

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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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 human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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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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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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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Fromm, Erich

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

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