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

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

Durrell, Lawrence

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Matt Frewer

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

10.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

11.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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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

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

16.

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

Bible

17.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

18.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Auerbach, Red

20.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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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

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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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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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

30.

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

Carson, Johnny

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

32.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

33.

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

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Camus, Albert

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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

43.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

44.

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

Publilius Syrus

45.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

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

Diderot, Denis

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

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland