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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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

Allen, Woody

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

11.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

12.

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

Craig Volk

13.

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

Frida Kahlo

14.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

15.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

16.

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

Camus, Albert

17.

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

Einstein, Albert

18.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

19.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

20.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

21.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

22.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

23.

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

Plato

24.

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

25.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

26.

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

27.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

30.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

31.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

32.

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.

33.

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

Beaumont, Francis

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

37.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

38.

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

39.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

42.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

43.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

44.

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

45.

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

46.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

47.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

48.

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