Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Death

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Hazlitt, William

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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

Macdonald, George

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

10.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

14.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

15.

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

16.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Lucan, F. L.

19.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

20.

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

21.

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

Greene, Graham

22.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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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

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Epicurus

26.

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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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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

Lee, Nathaniel

31.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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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

33.

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

Auerbach, Red

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

38.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

39.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

40.

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

A. Sachs

41.

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

42.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

43.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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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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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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