Motivational Quotes

Death

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

- Lucan, F. L.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Johnny Carson

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

10.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

11.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

12.

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

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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

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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

15.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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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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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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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

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

Ann Radcliffe

21.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

25.

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

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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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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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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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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

Pamela Ribon

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Beaumont, Francis

34.

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

35.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

36.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Hazlitt, William

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

41.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Carson, Johnny

43.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

44.

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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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

46.

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

Fielding, Henry

47.

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

Bible

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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