Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Camus, Albert

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

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Frost, Robert

10.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

11.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

12.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

13.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

14.

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

15.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

16.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

18.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

19.

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

20.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

21.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

22.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

23.

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

Ken, Thomas

24.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

25.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

26.

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

Montgomery, James

27.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

28.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

29.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

30.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

31.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

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

Marvell, Andrew

33.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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

Woody Allen

35.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

38.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

39.

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

Hoffer, Eric

40.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

41.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

42.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

43.

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

Cocteau, Jean

44.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

45.

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

Bright, Grant M.

46.

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

47.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

48.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

49.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

50.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset