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

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

William Shakespeare

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

'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

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

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

Ann Radcliffe

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Berra, Yogi

10.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

Ken, Thomas

13.

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

15.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

18.

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

Montgomery, James

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

22.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

23.

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

Chandler, Raymond

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

25.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

26.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

28.

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

29.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

30.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

32.

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

Gray, Thomas

33.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

34.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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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

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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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

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

Matt Frewer

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

45.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

49.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar