Motivational Quotes

Death

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Mitford, William

4.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

5.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

6.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

7.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

8.

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

Horace

9.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

10.

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

11.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

13.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

15.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

20.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

21.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

22.

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

Woody Allen

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

25.

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

Plato

26.

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

Hook, Sydney

27.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

28.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

30.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

31.

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

Chandler, Raymond

32.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

33.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

34.

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

Dickinson, Emily

35.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

36.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

37.

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

38.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

39.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

40.

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

Picabia, Francis

41.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

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

43.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

44.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

48.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

49.

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

50.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire