Motivational Quotes

Death

Life is a loss of time.

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Death

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Lee, Nathaniel

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

10.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

11.

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

Charles II

12.

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

Camus, Albert

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

15.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

16.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

18.

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

19.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

20.

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

Lowell, James Russell

21.

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

Horace

22.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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

24.

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

25.

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

Fielding, Henry

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

27.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

28.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

29.

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

Darrow, Clarence

30.

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

31.

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

Hermes, Georg

32.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

33.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

34.

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

35.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

Randy K. Milholland

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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

40.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

41.

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

Plato

42.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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.

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

Bright, Grant M.

45.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

48.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

49.

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

50.

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.