Motivational Quotes

Death

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Death

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

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.

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

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

Auerbach, Red

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bible

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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

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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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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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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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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

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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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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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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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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

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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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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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Aaron McGruder

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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

Young, Edward

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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

Foster, John W.

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

Berra, Yogi

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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

38.

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Horace

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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

John Scalzi

43.

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

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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

45.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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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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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs