Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Death

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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

Plato

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Mitford, William

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Chandler, Raymond

10.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

11.

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

12.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

13.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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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

15.

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

16.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

18.

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

19.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

20.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

21.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

24.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

25.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

26.

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

Gray, Thomas

27.

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

Camus, Albert

28.

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

Bible

29.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

30.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

31.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

32.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

33.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

34.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

35.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

36.

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.

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

38.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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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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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

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

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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

44.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

45.

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.

46.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

47.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

48.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is a loss of time.