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

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

Craig Volk

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Montgomery, James

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Woody Allen

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.

10.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

11.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

12.

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

Butler, Samuel

13.

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

Gide, Andre

14.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

15.

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.

16.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

18.

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

Ken, Thomas

19.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

20.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

21.

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

Camus, Albert

22.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

23.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

24.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

25.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

27.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

28.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

29.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

30.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

31.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

32.

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

Epicurus

33.

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

Bhagavad Gita

34.

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

Mitford, William

35.

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

36.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

37.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

38.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

39.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

40.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

41.

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

42.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

43.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

44.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

45.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

46.

'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

47.

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

48.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

49.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

50.

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