Motivational Quotes

Death

Life is a loss of time.

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Death

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Frida Kahlo

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Lee, Nathaniel

10.

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

Pamela Ribon

11.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

12.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

13.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

14.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

15.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

16.

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

Havner, Vance

17.

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

Epicurus

18.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

19.

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

20.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

21.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

22.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

23.

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

Keats, John

24.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

25.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

26.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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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

28.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

29.

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

30.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

31.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

32.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

33.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

37.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

38.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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.

40.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

42.

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

Lucan, F. L.

43.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

44.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

45.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

46.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

47.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

48.

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

Canetti, Elias