Motivational Quotes

Death

Life is a loss of time.

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Death

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Eliot, George

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Allen, Woody

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

10.

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

Randy K. Milholland

11.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

12.

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

Publilius Syrus

13.

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

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

18.

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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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

25.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

28.

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

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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

Johnny Carson

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Duffecy, James

35.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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

Butler, Samuel

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Young, Edward

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

Landor, Walter Savage

44.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bagnold, Enid

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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