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

1.

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

2.

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

Horace

3.

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

Eliot, George

4.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

5.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

6.

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

7.

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

Diderot, Denis

8.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

9.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

10.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

11.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

12.

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

13.

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

Beaumont, Francis

14.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

15.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

16.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

17.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

18.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

19.

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

Heidegger, Martin

20.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

21.

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

Montgomery, James

22.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

23.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

24.

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.

25.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

26.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

27.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

28.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

29.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

31.

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

32.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

33.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

34.

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

Bayly, Joseph

35.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

36.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

37.

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

Ken, Thomas

38.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

40.

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

Keats, John

41.

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

Dryden, John

42.

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

Epicurus

43.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

44.

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

45.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

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

Auden, W. H.

47.

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

48.

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

Bayly, Joseph

49.

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

50.

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

Picabia, Francis