Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

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

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Randy K. Milholland

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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 the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Barker, Clive

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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Butler, Samuel

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Montgomery, James

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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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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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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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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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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

Farber, Dave

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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