Motivational Quotes

Death

Life is a loss of time.

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Death

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

10.

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

11.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

12.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

14.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

15.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

16.

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

Randy K. Milholland

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Bright, Grant M.

21.

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

22.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

24.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

25.

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

26.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

27.

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

Mann, Thomas

28.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

29.

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

Darrow, Clarence

30.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

31.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

32.

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

33.

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

Foster, John W.

34.

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

Butler, Samuel

35.

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

Fielding, Henry

36.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

37.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

38.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

39.

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

40.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

41.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

42.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

43.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

44.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

45.

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.

46.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

47.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

48.

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

49.

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

50.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace