Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Montgomery, James

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

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

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

11.

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.

12.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

13.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

14.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

15.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

16.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

18.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

20.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

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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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

23.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

25.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

26.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

28.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

29.

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]

Bible

30.

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

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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

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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

33.

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

Dyer, Wayne

34.

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

Bryant, William C.

35.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

Camus, Albert

37.

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

38.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

39.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

40.

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

41.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

42.

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

43.

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

Mann, Thomas

44.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

45.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

46.

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

Addison, Joseph

47.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

48.

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

49.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Eliot, George