Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Death

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

Mann, Thomas

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

Gray, Thomas

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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

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

Eliot, George

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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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

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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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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

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

A. Sachs

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Young, Edward

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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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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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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De