Motivational Quotes

Death

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

- Barbauld, Anna Letitia

Best Quotes about Death

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

Craig Volk

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

Bayly, Joseph

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.

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

Barker, Clive

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Bible

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

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

10.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

11.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

12.

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

Woody Allen

13.

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

Carson, Johnny

14.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

18.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

19.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

20.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

21.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

22.

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

Keats, John

23.

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

Randy K. Milholland

24.

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

Matt Frewer

25.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

26.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

27.

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

Bronte, Emily

28.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

29.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

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

Montgomery, James

31.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

32.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

33.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

34.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

35.

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

Eliot, George

36.

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

Milton, John

37.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

38.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

39.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

40.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

41.

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

John Scalzi

42.

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

43.

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

Camus, Albert

44.

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.

45.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

46.

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

Camus, Albert

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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