Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Death

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

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

Allen, Woody

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Bertolt Brecht

10.

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

Einstein, Albert

11.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

13.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

14.

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

15.

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

16.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

17.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

20.

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.

21.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

22.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

23.

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

24.

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

Epicurus

25.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

26.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

27.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

28.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

29.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

30.

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

Cocteau, Jean

31.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

32.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

35.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

36.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

37.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

38.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

39.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

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

Publilius Syrus

41.

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

David Assael

42.

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.

43.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

44.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

45.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

46.

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

Craig Volk

47.

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

48.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

49.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

50.

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