Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Death

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Hamilton, Hugh

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Camus, Albert

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

10.

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

11.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

15.

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

16.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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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

20.

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

Barker, Clive

21.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Camus, Albert

24.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

26.

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

Hoffer, Eric

27.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

28.

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

Becht, Ben

29.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

30.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

31.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

32.

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

33.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Heidegger, Martin

36.

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

Epicurus

38.

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 fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

40.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

42.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

43.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

44.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

45.

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

46.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

Farber, Dave

49.

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

Edith Sitwell

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann