Motivational Quotes

Death

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

- Bright, Grant M.

Best Quotes about Death

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Becht, Ben

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

Donne, John

10.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

12.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

13.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

14.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

15.

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

Lowell, James Russell

16.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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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

18.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Horace

21.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

23.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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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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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

26.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

29.

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

Heidegger, Martin

30.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

31.

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

Miller, Joaquin

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Byron, Lord

35.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

36.

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

Bible

37.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

38.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

39.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

40.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

42.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

43.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Matt Frewer

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus