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

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

Duffecy, James

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

Luther, Martin

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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

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

Thrale, Hester i

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

10.

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

Fromm, Erich

11.

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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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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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

15.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Milton, John

18.

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

Carson, Johnny

19.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

20.

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

21.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

22.

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

Fielding, Henry

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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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

25.

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

David Assael

27.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bryant, William C.

32.

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

Allen, Woody

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

34.

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

35.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

36.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

Addison, Joseph

40.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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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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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

44.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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

Bible

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.