Motivational Quotes

Death

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Death

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Haracourt, Edmond

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

10.

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

11.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

12.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

13.

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

Allen, Woody

14.

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

15.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

16.

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

Darrow, Clarence

17.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

18.

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

19.

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

Forster, Edward M.

20.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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.

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

Dryden, John

23.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

Heidegger, Martin

26.

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

27.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

28.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

29.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

30.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

31.

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

Matt Frewer

32.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

33.

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

Bible

34.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

35.

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

36.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

37.

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

38.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

40.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

41.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

42.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

43.

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

44.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

45.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

46.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

47.

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

Greene, Graham

48.

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

Bayly, Joseph

49.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

50.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.