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

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

Allen, Woody

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Camus, Albert

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Butler, Samuel

11.

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

Montgomery, James

12.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

15.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

17.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

18.

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

Woody Allen

19.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

20.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

21.

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

Publilius Syrus

22.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

23.

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

24.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

25.

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

26.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

27.

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

David Assael

28.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

29.

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

30.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

35.

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

Publilius Syrus

36.

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

A. Sachs

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

40.

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

Hermes, Georg

41.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

42.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

43.

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

Cocteau, Jean

44.

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

Dickinson, Emily

45.

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

Marvell, Andrew

46.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

47.

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

Beaumont, Francis

48.

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

Hubbard, Kin

49.

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

50.

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