Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Johnny Carson

Best Quotes about Death

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Camus, Albert

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

Johnny Carson

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

11.

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

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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

13.

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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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.

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

18.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

20.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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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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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ken, Thomas

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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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

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Montgomery, James

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Eliot, George

46.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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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

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Jefferson, Joseph