Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Death

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

Auerbach, Red

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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

Macdonald, George

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Ken, Thomas

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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

10.

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

Bacon, Francis

11.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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 do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

16.

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

A. Sachs

18.

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

Bible

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

21.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Fromm, Erich

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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

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

27.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

31.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

Bronte, Emily

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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

36.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

37.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

38.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

39.

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

Bagnold, Enid

40.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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

42.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

43.

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

Einstein, Albert

44.

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

Lucan, F. L.

45.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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 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