Motivational Quotes

Death

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

- Bright, Grant M.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Canetti, Elias

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

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

Woody Allen

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

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Bible

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Eliot, George

13.

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

Johnny Carson

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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

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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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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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

Butler, Samuel

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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'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

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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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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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

Milton, John

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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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

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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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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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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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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth