Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bible

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

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Montgomery, James

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

Aaron McGruder

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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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

12.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

13.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Randy K. Milholland

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

Hazlitt, William

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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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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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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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.

Byron, Lord

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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

37.

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

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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I am not the least afraid to die.