Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

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

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

Bright, Grant M.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

10.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

11.

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

Luther, Martin

12.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

13.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

15.

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

16.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

17.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

18.

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

Publilius Syrus

19.

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

Fielding, Henry

20.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

21.

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

Bronte, Emily

22.

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

23.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

24.

'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

25.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

28.

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

29.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

30.

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

31.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

32.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

33.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

34.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

35.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

36.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

37.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

38.

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

Butler, Samuel

39.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

40.

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

41.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

42.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

43.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

44.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

45.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

46.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

47.

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

Cocteau, Jean

48.

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.

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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.