Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, 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

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

Bayly, Joseph

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

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

Johnny Carson

10.

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

11.

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

Cocteau, Jean

12.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

13.

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

Allen, Woody

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

17.

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

Bryant, William C.

18.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

20.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

21.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

23.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

24.

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

Frida Kahlo

25.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

26.

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

Eliot, George

27.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

28.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

29.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

30.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

31.

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

Picabia, Francis

32.

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

Eliot, George

33.

'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

34.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

35.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

36.

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

Horace

37.

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.

38.

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

Canetti, Elias

39.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

40.

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

41.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

42.

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

Farber, Dave

43.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

44.

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

45.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

46.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

47.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

48.

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

49.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

50.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain