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

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

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

'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

10.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

Epicurus

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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

13.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

15.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

16.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

17.

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

Canetti, Elias

18.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

19.

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

Horace

20.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

22.

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

Bhagavad Gita

23.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

25.

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

Hubbard, Kin

26.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

27.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

28.

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

Charles II

29.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

31.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

34.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Dryden, John

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Picabia, Francis

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