Motivational Quotes

Death

A useless life is an early death.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Death

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

Frida Kahlo

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

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

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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

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

Allen, Woody

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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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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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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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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

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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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

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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 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.

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

William Shakespeare

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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

Bible

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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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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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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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

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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

42.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

43.

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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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.