Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Death

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

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

Euripides

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Johnny Carson

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

Havner, Vance

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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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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Pamela Ribon

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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

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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

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

Sophocles

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Gray, Thomas

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Keats, John

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

Farber, Dave

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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

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bertolt Brecht

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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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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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

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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.

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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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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

Randy K. Milholland

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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