Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

John Scalzi

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

10.

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Butler, Samuel

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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

A. Sachs

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

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

Young, Edward

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

25.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Allen, Woody

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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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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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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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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

40.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Moody, Dwight L.