80 phrases and reflections on death
For some people, death represents the greatest fear of all, while others accept it as a natural life process that must be respected. There are those who even venerate it as the place of eternal rest and eternal life for loved ones. Be that as it may, death represents the end of earthly life and is necessary to accept it as a part of the cycle of the same, because at some point it will knock on our door.
Bearing this in mind, we have brought the best phrases and reflections about death so that you can have a new vision about it.
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Phrases and reflections on death
There are thousands of beliefs, taboos and customs that surround the subject of death and that have generated different thoughts that you will know below.
1. He who lives more than one life must die more than one death. (Oscar Wilde)
All our actions and decisions have consequences.
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2. Death is something that we should not fear because, while we are, death is not, and when death is, we are not. (Antonio Machado)
Death, although it is always present around us, does not really affect us directly.
3. Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live. (Norman Cousins)
There are people who do not care to enjoy their life.
4. Death does not rob us of loved ones. On the contrary, it keeps them for us and immortalizes them in our memory. (François Mauriac)
We do not lose someone when he dies, but when we forget him.
5. But life is short: living, everything is missing; dying, everything is left over (Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio)
When you die, things stop being important.
6. These violent pleasures have an equally violent end, and they die in full triumph, like fire and gunpowder, which, when kissing, are consumed. (Claire Danes)
Things that are done with intensity, if a solid base is not generated to move forward, they fade.
7. Dying is nothing more than changing residence. (Marcus Aurelius)
There are those who believe that when we die we only move to another world.
8. Death is a sleep without dreams, and perhaps without waking up. (Napoleon I Bonaparte)
A great analogy of what death represents.
9. How many die before having turned around themselves! (Charles A. Sainte-Beuve)
Many die without having fulfilled their dreams.
10. Often the tomb unknowingly contains two hearts in the same coffin. (Alphonse de Lamartine)
A reflection on the loss of a loved one, who also takes a part of us. .
11. He who lives on memories drags an endless death. (Anonymous)
Holding on to the past is the most inevitable way to kill the future.
12. Just as a well-spent day produces sweet sleep, so a well-spent life causes sweet death. (Leonardo da Vinci)
When we live a full life, we are at peace with death.
13. Death does not exist, people only die when they forget it; If you can remember me, I will always be with you. (Isabel Allende)
Death does not mean that we should forget someone.
14. Death is gentle, easy. Life is more difficult. (Kristen Stewart)
For many people, death is an expected warm reassurance.
15. Death is life lived. Life is a death that comes. (José Luis Borges)
We will all die one day.
16. The terrible thing is not the arrival of death, but the farewell to life! (Maurice Maeterlinck)
The real fear of death is knowing that life is over.
17. It is easier to bear death without thinking about it than to bear the thought of death. (Blaise Pascal)
When you live in fear of dying, you are always paranoid cautious.
18. Like a sea, around the sunny island of life, death sings its endless song night and day. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Dying is a natural part of life anywhere in the world.
19. Sleep with the thought of death and wake up with the thought that life is short. (Proverb)
By accepting that one day we may die, it is possible to see better the opportunities to live.
20. How else can you threaten other than death? The interesting thing, the original thing, would be that someone threatens you with immortality. (Jorge Luis Borges)
Immortality, although desired by many, actually represents a great burden.
21. Death is not the enemy, gentlemen. If we are going to fight against any disease, let us do it against the worst of all: indifference. (Robin Williams)
Indifference is an evil that is far more deadly than anything else.
22. If you do not know life yet, how can it be possible to know death? (Confucius)
Why worry about something we do not know?
23. We must cry when men are born and not when they die. (Charles-Louis de Secondat)
An interesting reflection on putting pain aside when we learn of a death.
24. Terrible is death! but how appealing is also the life of the other world, to which God calls us! (Saint Francis De Sales)
Many people are afraid of dying, but they take comfort in knowing that God is waiting on the other side.
25. The man who does not perceive the drama of his own end is not in normality but in pathology, and he would have to lie down on the stretcher and allow himself to be cured. (Carl Gustav Jung)
Fear of the end of life is normal, since it represents our desire to continue living.
26. Death is a challenge. He tells us not to waste time… He tells us to tell ourselves now that we love each other. (Leo Buscaglia)
Knowing that life is short should be a motivation to do what we want to do, before it is over.
27. Death is a chimera: because while I exist, death does not exist; and when death exists, I no longer exist. (Epicurus of Samos)
As long as we breathe, death will not reach us. And when it comes, we won't notice.
28. Not that death scares me. It's just that I don't want to be there when it happens. (Woody Allen)
We all want our death to come without suffering.
29. Death smiles at all of us, let's smile back. (Richard Harris)
Accept that at some point that moment will come for everyone.
30. On the day of your death it will happen that what you possess in this world will pass into the hands of someone else. But what you are will be yours forever. (Henry Van Dyke)
Reflection on what happens after death.
31. You don't die from being sick, you die from being alive. So many millions of men buried before us encourage us not to fear in going to find such good company in the other world. (Michel Eyquem)
Life only prepares you for the imminent death that awaits.
32. In the long run we will all be dead. (John Maynard Keynes)
A reality to accept.
33. Death is the beginning of immortality. (Maximilian Robespierre)
Immortality comes when you leave a legacy that everyone remembers.
34. Dying is a wild night and a new way. (Emily Dickinson)
What is there after death?
35. It is not enough to think about death, but it must always be in front of you. Then life becomes more solemn, more important, more fruitful and joyful. (Stefan Zweig)
Not only is it enough to accept death, but to be careful not to seek it.
36. We take stock of our life, but we know that the true prosecutor is death and that we know his verdict in advance. Final and inevitable companion. But, friend or foe. (Carlos Fuentes)
The perception of death changes our way of facing it.
37. If nothing saves us from death, unless love saves us from life. (Pablo Neruda)
May your love be greater than your fear of dying.
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38. It is more cruel to fear death than to die. (Publio Siro)
Fear, no matter what, is an unnecessary weight to carry.
39. The last day places each man in the same situation as he was before he was born. (Pliny the Elder)
From dust we come and to dust we will become.
40. Death awaits the old at the door of their house; young people are waiting for them. (Saint Bernard)
An interesting vision of where death awaits each one.
41. I am not afraid of death, what I am afraid of is trance, going there. I confess that I am curious to know what it is about. (Atahualpa Yupanqui)
Another very common fear is not of dying as such, but of what awaits in the afterlife.
42. We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in between is a gift. (Yul Brynner)
Appreciate everything that happens in your life and those you have by your side.
43. When death falls on man, the mortal part is extinguished; but the immortal principle withdraws and walks away safely. (Plato)
Only our body dies, but not what we leave in this world.
44. The only thing that separates us from death is time. (Ernest Hemingway)
Time can be our ally or our enemy, depending on how we use it.
45. The worst thing about you is that you refuse to fight, you give up, you just think about illness and death. But there is something as inevitable as death and it is life! (Charles Chaplin)
Life happens right now. What are you doing to live it?
46. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking that there is something to lose. (Steve Jobs)
Take a chance, because you only have one life to meet your goals.
47. Respect is owed to the living, to the dead nothing but truth. (Voltaire)
What do you owe your dead?
48. Death is sweet; but his anteroom, cruel. (Camilo José Cela)
For some, death is the most longed for.
49. Death asks life: "Why does everyone hate me and everyone loves you?" Life responds: "Because I am a beautiful lie and you are a sad truth."
An interesting paradox that makes us reflect.
50. Death is important only insofar as it makes us reflect on the value of life. (André Malraux)
Do not worry about the missing death, but what you have done in your life.
51. It is possible that the objective of man's life on earth is precisely to constantly strive for a goal. In other words, the goal itself is life itself and not the goal, which of course should not consist of two plus two equals four. And twice twice, ladies and gentlemen, it is no longer life but the beginning of death. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The final goal does not matter, but the experience that leaves the road.
52. Death is bravely taken in the face and then invited to a drink. (Edgard Allan Poe)
The best way to accept death.
53. What we think of death is only important because of what death makes us think of life. (Charles de Gaulle)
We fear death because we discover all that we need to live.
54. A mother is loved, always with equal affection, and at any age she is a child, when a mother dies. (José María Pemán)
Interesting reflection on one of the greatest losses for people.
55. Cowards die many times before their true death, brave men like death only once. (William Shakespeare)
Bad deeds are in themselves a death to the soul.
56. Live for yourself only if you can, because only for you, if you die, you die. (Francisco de Quevedo)
The one who will die is you, so he stops pleasing others.
57. If death were not the prelude to another life, the present life would be a cruel mockery. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Do you think there is another world that awaits us when we die?
58. Love now while you live since dead you will not be able to achieve it. (William Shakespeare)
A harsh observation about love and life.
59. I do not belong to your world, this is my place, where death is the eternal beginning. (Sandra Andrés Belenguer)
We can die over and over again in this world.
60. Death for the young is shipwreck and for the old it is reaching port. (Baltasar Gracián)
Death is not a punishment for everyone. There are those who see in it the peace they seek so much.
61. The one you think has died has only moved ahead on the road. (Seneca)
They all come to an end, sooner or later.
62. Different in life, men are equal in death. (Lao Tse)
Death does not distinguish between classes, social strata, sex, age or any other condition.
63. Only when we really know and understand that we have a limited time on earth, and that we have no way of know when our time is running out, then we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only have. (Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)
Don't wait until it's too late to live your life to its full potential.
64. Death will only be sad for those who have not thought about it. (Fénelon)
Only those who constantly think about death develop an erratic fear of it.
65. After all, death is just a symptom that there was life. (Mario Benedetti)
There is no death without life.
66. Childhood ends when you know you are going to die. (Michael Wincott)
Live your life as an eternal child: curious and full of love.
67. The life of the dead endures in the memory of the living. (Cicero)
The dead have greater influence than those who live now.
68. Every moment of life is a step towards death. (Pierre Corneille)
Every day we get closer to our death.
69. Do not fear death so much, but fear the inadequate life. (Bertolt Brecht)
You will regret living a miserable life more than losing it.
70. One must die with pride when it is no longer possible to live with pride. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Make all your actions fill you with pride until the end.
71. When you are aware of death, you end up assuming your own loneliness. (Rosa Regàs)
Death should be like loneliness, it is not always a negative sign.
72. Death makes angels out of all of us and gives us wings where before we had only shoulders... soft as crow's claws. (Jim Morrison)
A peaceful way of looking at death.
73. It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. (George S. Patton)
Losing someone is painful, but honoring them means being grateful that they were among us.
74. I don't mind dying tomorrow. I have lived, in every sense of the word. (Freddie Mercury)
When you have lived fully, you are at peace with life and accept death.
75. It has often been said that the terrible thing is not death, but dying. (Henry Fielding)
Ceasing to exist, either figuratively or literally, is what we must fear.
76. Pale death calls the huts of the humble as well as the towers of kings. (Horacio)
Death calls everyone the same.
77. Those who make a lot of noise when they live rest after their death in as much silence as those who have not. (Jonathan Edwards)
It doesn't matter if you enjoyed your life to the fullest or if you lived full of regrets, you will die anyway.
78. Death is the remedy for all ills; but we must not get hold of it until the last minute. (Molière)
Death is the eternal rest, but that rest has its time and place in life.
79. When the people we love are taken from us, the best way to keep them alive is not to stop loving them. (Rochelle Davis)
Just because they are no longer with you doesn't mean you should put aside the love you feel for them.
80. Death is deeply felt when the father remains alive (Seneca)
There is no worse pain and resentment than the death of a child for a parent.
