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

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

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Hazlitt, William

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

10.

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

Chandler, Raymond

11.

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

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.

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

Picabia, Francis

14.

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

15.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

16.

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

Craig Volk

17.

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.

18.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

19.

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

20.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

21.

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

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

24.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

25.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

26.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

28.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

29.

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

Camus, Albert

30.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Canetti, Elias

32.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

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

Miller, Joaquin

34.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

36.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

41.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Eliot, George

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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

44.

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

45.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

46.

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

Gray, Thomas

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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