Motivational Quotes

Death

Life is a loss of time.

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Death

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

Samuel Goldwyn

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Buffett, Jimmy

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Haracourt, Edmond

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

10.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

11.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

12.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

13.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

14.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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

Plato

17.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

18.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

20.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

21.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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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

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

Horace

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

Fielding, Henry

25.

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

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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

Marvell, Andrew

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

30.

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

Camus, Albert

31.

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

Hook, Sydney

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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

33.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

34.

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hazlitt, William

37.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

38.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

39.

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

Foster, John W.

40.

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

Woody Allen

41.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

42.

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

Dryden, John

43.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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

Epictetus

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Camus, Albert

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

48.

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.

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

Dryden, John

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb