Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Death

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

John Scalzi

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

Dyer, Wayne

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

10.

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.

11.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

12.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

13.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

14.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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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

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

Woody Allen

27.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

28.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

34.

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

Bible

35.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

36.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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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

41.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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 but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Young, Edward

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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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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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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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