Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Samuel Goldwyn

Best Quotes about Death

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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

Mitford, William

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

Woody Allen

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

Beaumont, Francis

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

12.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

13.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

14.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

15.

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

Randy K. Milholland

16.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

17.

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

18.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

19.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

20.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

21.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

22.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

23.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

24.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

25.

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

26.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

27.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

28.

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

29.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

30.

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

31.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

32.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

33.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

34.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

35.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

36.

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

Butler, Samuel

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

43.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

44.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

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

Greene, Graham

46.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

47.

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

Sophocles

48.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

49.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich