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

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Miller, Joaquin

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Bronte, Emily

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

10.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

11.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

12.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

13.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

14.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

15.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

16.

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

Euripides

17.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

18.

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

Horace

19.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

20.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

21.

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

Montgomery, James

22.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

24.

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

25.

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

26.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

27.

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

28.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

30.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

31.

'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

32.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

33.

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

Hoffer, Eric

34.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

35.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

37.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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.

39.

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

Oscar Wilde

40.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

41.

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

George Burns

42.

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

Butler, Samuel

43.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

44.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

45.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

46.

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

47.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

48.

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

Camus, Albert

49.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]