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

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

Bible

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

Leonardo da Vinci

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

11.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

12.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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

Carson, Johnny

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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.

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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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

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bible

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Dryden, John

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

Charles II

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

30.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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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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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

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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.

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Bible

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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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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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

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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

49.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

50.

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