Motivational Quotes

Death

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Death

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Heidegger, Martin

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

John Scalzi

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

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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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

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

21.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

22.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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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

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Gide, Andre

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Horace

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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

Johnny Carson

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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

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

36.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Ken, Thomas

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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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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 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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Pamela Ribon

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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.