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

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

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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

Hook, Sydney

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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

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

Bayly, Joseph

10.

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

Publilius Syrus

11.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

13.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

14.

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

15.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

16.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

17.

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

18.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

19.

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

Manilius, Marcus

20.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

21.

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

22.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

23.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

24.

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

Diderot, Denis

25.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

26.

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

27.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

28.

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

Johnny Carson

29.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

30.

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

Epicurus

31.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

32.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

33.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

34.

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

35.

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

Hoffer, Eric

36.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

37.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

40.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

41.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

42.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

43.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Craig Volk

47.

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.

Browne, Sir Thomas

48.

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

49.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin