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

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

Bright, Grant M.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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

10.

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

Craig Volk

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.

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

Carson, Johnny

13.

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

14.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

15.

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

Publilius Syrus

16.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

17.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

18.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

19.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

20.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

21.

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

Woody Allen

22.

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

Marvell, Andrew

23.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

24.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

25.

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

George Burns

26.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

27.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

28.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

29.

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

30.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

31.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

32.

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

Bayly, Joseph

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Mitford, William

36.

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

Keats, John

37.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

Mann, Thomas

40.

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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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

42.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

43.

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

Luther, Martin

44.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

46.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

47.

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

48.

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

49.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

50.

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

Bhagavad Gita