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

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Hamilton, Hugh

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

George Burns

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

11.

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

12.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

17.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

18.

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

Allen, Woody

19.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

20.

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

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

Montgomery, James

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

Keats, John

28.

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

29.

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

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

Picabia, Francis

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Pamela Ribon

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

Young, Edward

35.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

36.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

39.

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

David Assael

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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

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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

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

Bayly, Joseph

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Foster, John W.

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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

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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