Motivational Quotes

Death

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

- Plath, Sylvia

Best Quotes about Death

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

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

Moody, Dwight L.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

William Shakespeare

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Beaumont, Francis

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

14.

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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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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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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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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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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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

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hazlitt, William

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

A. Sachs

31.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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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

35.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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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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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Pamela Ribon

43.

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

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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

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Havner, Vance

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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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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.