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

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

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

Picabia, Francis

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

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

Bible

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

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

11.

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

12.

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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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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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

15.

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

Edith Sitwell

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

17.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Carson, Johnny

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

25.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

26.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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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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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

31.

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

32.

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

Bryant, William C.

33.

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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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Epictetus

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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

Frida Kahlo

40.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Woody Allen

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Foster, John W.

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Allen, Woody

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch