Quotes About Death

Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat.

With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.

Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.

St John, on Christ's bosom, pray for me in the days of my discipleship, in the house of my faith, in the hour of my death.

It was autumn, the springtime of death.

He that dies this year is quit for the next.

The reason that you call it 'grief' is because you've been programmed to believe that you should feel bad about death.

To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.

The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!

The dead don't bother with particulars.

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.

Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

Mark, how the ready hands of Death prepare: His bow is bent, and he hath notch'd his dart; He aims, he levels at thy slumb'ring heart: The wound is posting, O be wise, beware.

Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!

Death had no lips, but it was smiling

Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die, all the ideas of self will go away.

Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion.

You don't really have a choice. You are alive and you will die.

Death is a doorway. It is a very small, thin doorway and only a portion of our being can walk through.

If you can die, you are confused because death is a perception of something ending and something else obviously beginning, which means we're still hung up on qualities.

Anything that ends with death isn't really mind, just the things that pass through a mind.

Death is only a summer vacation for us. We don't really change or lose what we have learned or who we have been when we die, because we are our karma.