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

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

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Bacon, Francis

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

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

Matt Frewer

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

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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]

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11.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

12.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

13.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

14.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

15.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

16.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

Horace

18.

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

Allen, Woody

19.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

20.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

22.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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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

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

Dryden, John

25.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

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

Aurelius, Marcus

28.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

29.

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

Allen, Woody

30.

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

Cocteau, Jean

31.

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

32.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

36.

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

37.

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

Plato

38.

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.

39.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

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40.

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

Carson, Johnny

41.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

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

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

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