Motivational Quotes

Death

Life is a loss of time.

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Death

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

10.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Hook, Sydney

12.

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

Woody Allen

13.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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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.

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

Darrow, Clarence

18.

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

Barker, Clive

19.

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

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Fielding, Henry

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Allen, Woody

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

Fielding, Henry

31.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

33.

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

Dryden, John

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Foster, John W.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

39.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Farber, Dave

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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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

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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

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De