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

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Allen, Woody

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

10.

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

11.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

12.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

13.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

14.

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

Horace

15.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

16.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

17.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

18.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

19.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

20.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

21.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

22.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

23.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

24.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

25.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

26.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

27.

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

28.

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

Milton, John

29.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Bayly, Joseph

33.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

34.

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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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

36.

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

Canetti, Elias

37.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

38.

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

39.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

40.

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

Bright, Grant M.

41.

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

42.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

Charles II

46.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

47.

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

48.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

49.

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

Forster, Edward M.

50.

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.