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

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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

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

Keats, John

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Canetti, Elias

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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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

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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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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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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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

18.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

19.

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

Farber, Dave

20.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Eliot, George

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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

John Scalzi

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Manilius, Marcus

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

George Burns

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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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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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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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

43.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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