Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- John Scalzi

Best Quotes about Death

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

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

Woody Allen

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

10.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

11.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

12.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

13.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

14.

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

15.

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

Young, Edward

16.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Gide, Andre

18.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

20.

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

21.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

22.

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

23.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

24.

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

25.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

26.

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Horace

28.

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

29.

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

Publilius Syrus

30.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

31.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

32.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

33.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

34.

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

Manilius, Marcus

35.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

36.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

37.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

38.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

39.

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

40.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

41.

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

42.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

44.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

45.

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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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

47.

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

Pamela Ribon

48.

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

49.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

50.

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.