Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Bible

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

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Matt Frewer

'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

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

10.

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

Montgomery, James

11.

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

12.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

14.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

15.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

17.

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

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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

19.

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

Allen, Woody

20.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

21.

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

Butler, Samuel

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

24.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

25.

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

Beaumont, Francis

26.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

27.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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

30.

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Sophocles

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

John Scalzi

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Oscar Wilde

37.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Euripides

40.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

41.

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

Cocteau, Jean

42.

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

43.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

44.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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

Mitford, William

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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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

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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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