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

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Hoffer, Eric

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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.

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

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

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

10.

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

Berra, Yogi

11.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

12.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

13.

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

14.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

15.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

16.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

17.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

18.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

19.

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

20.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

21.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

22.

Bardot, Brigitte

23.

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

Palmerston, Lord

24.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

26.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

27.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

28.

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

Manilius, Marcus

29.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

30.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

31.

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

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

Plato

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

35.

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

Gide, Andre

36.

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

Hook, Sydney

37.

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

Bright, Grant M.

38.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

39.

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

40.

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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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

42.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

45.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

47.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

48.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

49.

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

50.

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

Darrow, Clarence