Death Quote by David Riesman

“Yet the presence of death always refreshes experience thus--that is its function: to help us deliberate on the novelty of time.”

— Lawrence Durrell

Inherently within the temperamental soul of humanity lies a shivering and thoroughly jealous irrational thought of death. Life has such a fickle intense passion,…

— Johnny Luckett

Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware and alert…

— Stephen Batchelor

Death accompanies us at every step and enables us to use those moments when life smiles at us to feel more deeply the sweetness…

— Theodor Fontane

The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live.

— Luc de Clapiers

“A pleasing paradox — The more frequently we contemplate our death, the less dominant its effect in our lives becomes. Like King Mithridates, who…

— Giannis Delimitsos

The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical reactions to these experiences…

— Edgar Mitchell

An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.

— Paulo Coelho

Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.

— Ronald Blythe

“Our deep irrational feelings of death anxiety have been attributed to multiple sources. In part, they may arise from evolved self-protection mechanisms or survival…

— Richard J. Borden

“may die today’ is the realization of death. It is this realization that directly eliminates our laziness of attachment and opens the door to…

— Kelsang Gyatso

Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if…

— Albert Schweitzer