Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

1.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

2.

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.

3.

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

Bible

4.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

5.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

6.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

7.

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

Dryden, John

8.

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

Beaumont, Francis

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

12.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

15.

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

Dyer, Wayne

16.

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

Hook, Sydney

17.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

18.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

19.

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

Greene, Graham

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Charles II

22.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Mann, Thomas

25.

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

26.

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

Camus, Albert

27.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

28.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

29.

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

30.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

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

Publilius Syrus

33.

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

34.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

35.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

36.

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

Butler, Samuel

37.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

38.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

39.

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

40.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Dickinson, Emily

42.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

43.

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

Hermes, Georg

44.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

48.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

49.

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

Hubbard, Kin

50.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus