Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Duffecy, James

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

Samuel Goldwyn

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Dyer, Wayne

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

'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

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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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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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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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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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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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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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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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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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

William Shakespeare

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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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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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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Dowell, Coleman

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

Milton, John

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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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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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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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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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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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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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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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.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.