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

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Montgomery, James

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Miller, Joaquin

10.

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

Stephanie Klein

11.

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

12.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

13.

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

14.

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

Butler, Samuel

15.

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

Bertolt Brecht

16.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

17.

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

18.

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

Woody Allen

19.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

20.

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

Allen, Woody

21.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

22.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

23.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

24.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

25.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

26.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

27.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

29.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

30.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

31.

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

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

34.

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

Gray, Thomas

35.

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

36.

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

Hook, Sydney

37.

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

Pamela Ribon

38.

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

Dyer, Wayne

39.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

40.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

41.

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

42.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

43.

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

Charles II

44.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

45.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

46.

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

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

48.

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

Camus, Albert

49.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

50.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.