Motivational Quotes

Death

Life is a loss of time.

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Death

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

Fielding, Henry

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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

Palmerston, Lord

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

Barker, Clive

10.

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

Edith Sitwell

11.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

12.

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

Pamela Ribon

13.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Craig Volk

21.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

22.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

25.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

26.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

29.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Hubbard, Kin

35.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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.

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

Havner, Vance

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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

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

40.

'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

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Horace

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

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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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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

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak