Motivational Quotes

Death

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

- Gabirol, Ibn

Best Quotes about Death

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Bhagavad Gita

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

10.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

11.

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

Auden, W. H.

12.

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

13.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

14.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

15.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

18.

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

Plato

19.

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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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

21.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

22.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

23.

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

Gray, Thomas

24.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

26.

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

27.

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.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Woody Allen

30.

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

31.

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

Ann Radcliffe

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Lowell, James Russell

36.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

37.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

38.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

39.

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

Woody Allen

40.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

41.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

42.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

43.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

44.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

45.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

46.

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

47.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

48.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

49.

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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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