Motivational Quotes

Death

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.

Best Quotes about Death

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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

Milton, John

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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 dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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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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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

Thrale, Hester i

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Johnny Carson

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

Butler, Samuel

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Horace

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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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

31.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Oscar Wilde

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

49.

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

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

Bacon, Francis