Motivational Quotes

Death

Life is a loss of time.

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Death

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Craig Volk

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

12.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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

Young, Edward

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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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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

17.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

21.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

22.

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Forster, Edward M.

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Craig Volk

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

31.

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

32.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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'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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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

43.

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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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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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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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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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

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George