Motivational Quotes

Death

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

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

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

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

Plato

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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

Darrow, Clarence

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

10.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

11.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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

14.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

15.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

16.

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

17.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

19.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

23.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

26.

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

Hubbard, Kin

27.

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

28.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

29.

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

Butler, Samuel

30.

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

Camus, Albert

31.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

32.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

33.

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

Stephanie Klein

34.

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

35.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

36.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

37.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

41.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

42.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

43.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

44.

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

Plato

45.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

46.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

47.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

48.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

49.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

50.

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

Allen, Woody