Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

1.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

2.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

3.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

4.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

5.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

6.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

7.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

8.

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

9.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

10.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

11.

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

Ann Radcliffe

12.

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

Hermes, Georg

13.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

14.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

15.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

16.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

17.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

18.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

19.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

20.

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

Macdonald, George

21.

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

22.

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

Mitford, William

23.

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

Pamela Ribon

24.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

25.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

26.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

27.

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

28.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

29.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

30.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

31.

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

Dyer, Wayne

32.

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

33.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

34.

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

Bacon, Francis

35.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

36.

'Tis after death that we measure men.