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

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

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

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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

11.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

12.

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

13.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

14.

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.

15.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

16.

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

Dryden, John

17.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

18.

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.

19.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

20.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

21.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

22.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

23.

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

24.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

25.

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

Beaumont, Francis

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

29.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

30.

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

31.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

32.

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

Horace

33.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

34.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

35.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

36.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

37.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

38.

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

39.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

40.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

41.

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

42.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

43.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

44.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

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

Gide, Andre

46.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

47.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

48.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

49.

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

Butler, Samuel

50.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell