Meaningful Death Quotes

• Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Graduation, Death

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Death ends a life, not a relationship.

  Jack Lemmon

  Life, True Love, Death

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• The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

  Mark Twain

  Positive, Death, Spiritual

  "A Voice Crying In The Wilderness". Book by Edward Abbey, 1989.

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• Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.

  Steve Jobs

  Death, Best Job, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Order, Should

  Virginia Woolf, Francine Prose (2003). “The Mrs. Dalloway reader”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.

  Robert Fulghum

  Hope, Laughter, Grief

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.8, Ivy Books

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Humorous, Profound

  The Twilight of the Idols

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• I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Moving On, Death

  "The Diary of Anais Nin: Vol. 1 (1931-1934)" by Anais Nin, (p. 190), March 19, 1969.

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• People living deeply have no fear of death.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Inspiring, Death

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)". Book by Anais Nin, 1970.

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• The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Best of Poe”, p.134, Prestwick House Inc

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• In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Sad, Sympathy, Stars

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2414, Library of Alexandria

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• Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Death, Funeral, Dying

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

  Stewart Alsop

  Death, Time, Sleep

  Stewart Alsop (2016). “Stay of Execution: A Sort of Memoir”, p.257, Open Road Media

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• No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Death, Memorable

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• Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

  Isaac Asimov

  Sympathy, Death, Depressing

  Isaac Asimov (1988). “Fantastic voyage II: destination brain”

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• Once you learn how to die you learn how to live.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Love, You Live You Learn, Dies

  "The Unfinished Symphony", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

  David Gerrold

  Life, Grateful, Order

  David Gerrold, Mike Resnick (2011). “Alternative Gerrolds: An Assortment of Ficitious Lives”, p.241, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

  Tecumseh

  Life, Death, Wisdom

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

  Corazon Aquino

  Life, Death, Wise

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• Do not seek death. Death will find you.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Death, Dying, Fulfillment In Life

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

  Norman Cousins

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Death, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

  Mitch Albom

  Death, Truth Is, You Live You Learn

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.82, Broadway Books

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Memories, Grieving

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Maurice MACKAY (1855). “Select Orations of Marcus T. Cicero: together with the Treatises on Old Age and Friendship. Literally translated by the Rev. Dr. M'Kay ... Second edition”, p.138

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