Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Death

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bright, Grant M.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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 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

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Eliot, George

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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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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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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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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Duffecy, James

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Becht, Ben

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

Mann, Thomas

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Epicurus

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

Butler, Samuel

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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