Motivational Quotes

Death

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

- Bright, Grant M.

Best Quotes about Death

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Woody Allen

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

Oscar Wilde

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Montgomery, James

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

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

Allen, Woody

10.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

11.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

12.

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

Mitford, William

13.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Epicurus

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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

17.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

21.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

22.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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

24.

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

25.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

26.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

31.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

34.

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

35.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

36.

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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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

38.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

40.

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

Farber, Dave

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

43.

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

Charles II

44.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

Camus, Albert

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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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