Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Death

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

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

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Carson, Johnny

10.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

11.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

12.

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.

13.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

14.

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Bertolt Brecht

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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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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

18.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

19.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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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

21.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

22.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

23.

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

Johnny Carson

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Woody Allen

26.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

28.

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's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

30.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

31.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Einstein, Albert

35.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

36.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

37.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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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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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

40.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

41.

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

Hazlitt, William

42.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

43.

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 I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

46.

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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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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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

49.

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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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas