Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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

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

Eliot, George

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Byron, Lord

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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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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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Donne, John

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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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

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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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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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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Publilius Syrus

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

William Shakespeare

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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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]

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De