Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Death

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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

Bright, Grant M.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Addison, Joseph

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

10.

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

Donne, John

11.

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

Dickinson, Emily

12.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

13.

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.

14.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

15.

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

Montgomery, James

16.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

17.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

18.

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

19.

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

Bhagavad Gita

20.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

21.

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

22.

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

Marvell, Andrew

23.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

24.

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

Charles II

25.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

26.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

27.

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

28.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

29.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

31.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

32.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

33.

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

Foster, John W.

34.

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

35.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

38.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

39.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

40.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

41.

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

Gray, Thomas

42.

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

Oscar Wilde

43.

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

44.

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

Keats, John

45.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

46.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.