Motivational Quotes

Death

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

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Best Quotes about Death

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

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

Forster, Edward M.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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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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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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

William Shakespeare

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Frida Kahlo

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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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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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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 think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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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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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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