Motivational Quotes

Death

Life is a loss of time.

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Death

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Barker, Clive

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

10.

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

11.

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

12.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

13.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

15.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

16.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

21.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

22.

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

23.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

24.

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

25.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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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

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

29.

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

Publilius Syrus

30.

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

Horace

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Einstein, Albert

34.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

36.

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

Craig Volk

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

38.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

40.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

41.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

Thrale, Hester i

44.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

45.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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