Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Death

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

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

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

Aaron McGruder

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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 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

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Marvell, Andrew

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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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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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Bertolt Brecht

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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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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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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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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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

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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

Gray, Thomas

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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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

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

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