Motivational Quotes

Death

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Death

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bayly, Joseph

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

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

Johnny Carson

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

Pamela Ribon

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

Ken, Thomas

11.

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

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

Lucan, F. L.

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Fielding, Henry

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Havner, Vance

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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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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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

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

Woody Allen

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Berra, Yogi

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Milton, John

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

John Scalzi

38.

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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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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

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