Motivational Quotes

Death

Life is a loss of time.

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Death

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

Duffecy, James

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

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

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Farber, Dave

10.

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

Carson, Johnny

11.

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

Greene, Graham

12.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

13.

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

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

Foster, John W.

18.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

19.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

A. Sachs

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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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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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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

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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

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

34.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

35.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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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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

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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

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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

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

43.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

45.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

George Burns

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.