Motivational Quotes

Death

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Death

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

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

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

Woody Allen

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

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

12.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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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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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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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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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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

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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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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Bright, Grant M.

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

Bertolt Brecht

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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

Mitford, William

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

42.

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

Palmerston, Lord

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Woody Allen

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II