Motivational Quotes

Death

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

Carson, Johnny

10.

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

A. Sachs

11.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

12.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Epicurus

16.

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

17.

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

Randy K. Milholland

18.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

19.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

20.

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

Farber, Dave

21.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

22.

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

23.

'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

24.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

25.

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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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

28.

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.

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

30.

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

Johnny Carson

31.

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

Bible

32.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

33.

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

Fielding, Henry

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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

35.

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Beaumont, Francis

37.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

38.

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

39.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

42.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

43.

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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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

45.

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

46.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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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

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von