Motivational Quotes

Death

The fear of death is worse than death.

- Burton, Robert

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Pamela Ribon

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Berra, Yogi

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

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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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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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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

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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

David Assael

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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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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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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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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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

Keats, John

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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

Aaron McGruder

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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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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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous