Quotes About Death

Cerrar podrá mis ojos la postrera sombra, que me llevare el blanco día

Men or tigers, sphex or carabs are under the same necessity; to kill or to die, or to shed blood or eat grass. But to eat grass, is not much better than suicide: ask the lambkins.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough. It is potentially liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

I wouldn't mind dying — it's the business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.

admitting the ultimate defeat of the spirit in self-imposed death.

Death was like the thirteenth person in the household, crowding out all other thoughts, making it hard to breathe.

Whenever you are ready, or if you never are, my heart is yours, until Death do us part. Whatever that may mean when consorting with one of Death's handmaidens.

while I am Death's daughter and walk in His dark shadow, surely the darkness can give way to light sometimes.

And just as love has two sides, so too does Death. While Ismae will serve as His mercy, I will not, for that is not how He fashioned me. Every death I have witnessed, every horror I have endured, has forged me to be who I am -- Death's justice.

Defining a true friend, Chanakya says that for a person going abroad, education is his true friend and for the family, a loyal wife is a true friend. For a sick person, his medicine is a true friend. Since after death only a person's acts and religious beliefs count, so religion is his true well-wisher. Therefore, a man should perform good deeds while living, so that he does not face hardships after death.

Our sages have said, "Sleep is one sixtieth of death" (Talmud, Berachot 57b). If sleep is a form of death, then death is a form of sleep -- but a temporary withdrawal of vitality for the sake of reawakening to a higher quality of life

Literature gives me life, and life kills me. Well, life kills everyone.

In Beirut, death's unremitting light shines bright for all to see, brighter than the Mediterranean sun, brighter than the night's Russian missiles, brighter than a baby's smile.

Forgetting is as integral to memory as death is to life.

Death is the only vantage point from which a life can be truly measured.

Literature gives me life and life kills me.

Malcolm Lowry Late of the Bowery His prose was flowery And often glowery He lived, nightly, and drank, daily, And died playing the ukulele

Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo. I was not, I was, I am not, I don't care. It is the most common text found on Roman graves.

As much as I loved it and felt at home within its cages, school is more Hades than Heaven - a ritual killing of childhood is performed in school, children are put to death.

You looked inhuman when you were dying, Doc, your eyes glistened like dimming stars, you were wasting away and life was leaving you piecemeal, your soul no longer fit your body, you hated it and I hated it and I couldn't recognize you and I couldn't see you and I was frightened and I never knew what to do, I looked for the man I love in you and I searched for who I used to be around you and I couldn't find either.

In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite. It is death which is m

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.

Let life be as beautiful as summer flowers And death as beautiful as autumn leaves.

When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.