Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Johnny Carson

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

Camus, Albert

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

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

Mitford, William

10.

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

11.

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

12.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

13.

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

14.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

16.

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

17.

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

John Scalzi

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

21.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

22.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

23.

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

24.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

26.

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

27.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

28.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

29.

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

30.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

31.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

32.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

33.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

34.

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.

Alsop, Steward

35.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

36.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

37.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

38.

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

39.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

40.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

41.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

42.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.