Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Randy K. Milholland

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Berra, Yogi

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

Palmerston, Lord

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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

Allen, Woody

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Johnny Carson

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Milton, John

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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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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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bible

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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

Randy K. Milholland

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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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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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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

Bacon, Francis

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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

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.