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

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

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

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Haracourt, Edmond

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Keats, John

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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

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Eliot, George

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Dickinson, Emily

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Gide, Andre

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

29.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

Camus, Albert

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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

Bayly, Joseph

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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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

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

41.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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