Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Death

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.

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

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

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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

Leonardo da Vinci

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

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

Frost, Robert

10.

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

Horace

11.

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

Eliot, George

12.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

13.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

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

Byron, Lord

15.

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

Picabia, Francis

16.

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

Luther, Martin

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

19.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

20.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

21.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

22.

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

23.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

24.

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

Charles II

25.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

26.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

28.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

29.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

30.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

31.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

32.

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

Publilius Syrus

33.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

34.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

35.

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

Young, Edward

36.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

37.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

38.

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

39.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

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

Craig Volk

41.

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

Greene, Graham

42.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

43.

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

44.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

45.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

48.

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

Montgomery, James

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.