Motivational Quotes

Death

The fear of death is worse than death.

- Burton, Robert

Best Quotes about Death

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

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

Randy K. Milholland

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Auerbach, Red

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

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

Dickinson, Emily

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Publilius Syrus

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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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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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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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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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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

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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

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Woody Allen

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Montgomery, James

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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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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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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

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

Bertolt Brecht

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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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