Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

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.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bright, Grant M.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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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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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

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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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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Allen, Woody

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus