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

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Charles II

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

Aaron McGruder

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

Plato

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Bayly, Joseph

10.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

11.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

13.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

14.

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

15.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

16.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

17.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

18.

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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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.

20.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

21.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

22.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

23.

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

John Scalzi

24.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

25.

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

Carson, Johnny

26.

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

Eliot, George

28.

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

Ken, Thomas

29.

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

Camus, Albert

30.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

33.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

34.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

35.

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

Gray, Thomas

36.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

37.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

38.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

39.

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

Frost, Robert

40.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

41.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

42.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

43.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

44.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

45.

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

Horace

46.

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

47.

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

Heidegger, Martin

48.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.

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

Plato

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.