Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Davis, Mrs Hubbard

Best Quotes about Death

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

10.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

11.

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

Hermes, Georg

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Hook, Sydney

15.

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

Milton, John

16.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

17.

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

18.

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

Woody Allen

19.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

20.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

21.

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

Cocteau, Jean

22.

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

Montgomery, James

23.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

24.

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

25.

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

Bible

26.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

27.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

28.

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

29.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

30.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

31.

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

Berra, Yogi

32.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

33.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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

Craig Volk

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

38.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

39.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

40.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

41.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

42.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

44.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Plato

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.

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

49.

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

50.

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