Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Death

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.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Carson, Johnny

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 look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Euripides

10.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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

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

Bronte, Emily

13.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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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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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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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Greene, Graham

25.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Berra, Yogi

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Ken, Thomas

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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

Duffecy, James

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Milton, John

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

Fielding, Henry

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George