Motivational Quotes

Death

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Death

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Lowell, James Russell

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

10.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

12.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

13.

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

Miller, Joaquin

14.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

15.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

16.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

17.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

18.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

19.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

20.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

22.

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

Beaumont, Francis

23.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

24.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

25.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

26.

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

Thrale, Hester i

27.

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

Butler, Samuel

28.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

29.

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

Farber, Dave

30.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

31.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

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

33.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

34.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

35.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

36.

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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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

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

40.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Epicurus

42.

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

43.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

44.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

45.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

48.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

49.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

50.

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

Camus, Albert