Motivational Quotes

Death

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

- Donne, John

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

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

Mitford, William

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Woody Allen

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

13.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

14.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

15.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

16.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

17.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

18.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

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

20.

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

Allen, Woody

21.

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

22.

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

Einstein, Albert

23.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

24.

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

Matt Frewer

25.

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

26.

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

Macdonald, George

27.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

28.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

29.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

30.

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

Keats, John

31.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

32.

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

Woody Allen

33.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

34.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

35.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

37.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

38.

'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

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

Frida Kahlo

42.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

43.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

44.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

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

Publilius Syrus

46.

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

Darrow, Clarence

47.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

48.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

49.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert