Motivational Quotes

Death

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Einstein, Albert

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Leonardo da Vinci

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Bertolt Brecht

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Milton, John

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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'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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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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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

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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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

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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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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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

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

Ken, Thomas

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lucan, F. L.

42.

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

Woody Allen

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

Farber, Dave

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus