Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Death

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

William Shakespeare

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

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Thrale, Hester i

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

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 is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

Bible

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

Hook, Sydney

14.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

15.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

19.

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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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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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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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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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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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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

Dickinson, Emily

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Fielding, Henry

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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