Quotes About Death

Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain. So many duties.

The Last Battle was not hope. The Last Battle was death. But it was a place to be, a place to go.

I'll not have you bleeding to death on me. That would be just like you, to die and leave me the work of burying you. You have no consideration.

Soon comes the day all shall be free. Even you, and even me. Soon comes the day all shall die. Surely you, but never I. Padan Fain

He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.

Behind him, Birgitte Silverbow stood over her corpse, one foot to either side of the headless body.

Death came for every man eventually, and seldom where or when he expected.

And at the end of every life, as he lay dying, as he drew his final breath, a voice whispered in his ear. I have won again, Lews Therin. Flicker

If you ever meet a Malkieri," Noal said, "you tell him Jain Farstrider died clean." "I will, Jain," Mat said. "May the light hold you." Noal

The grave is no bar to my call.

The rose petal floats on water," Lan recited softly. "The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

only the dead could afford oblivion.

At the end of time, when the many become one, the last storm shall gather its angry winds to destroy a land already dying. And at its center, the blind man shall stand upon his own grave. There he shall see again, and weep for what has been wrought.

Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.

At dawn the day was born, just as twilight gave birth to night, but at dawn, night died, and at twilight, day.

In the last, lorn fight 'gainst the fall of long night, the mountains stand guard, and the dead shall be ward, for the grave is no bar to my call.

But trust is the color of a dark seed growing. Trust is the color of a heart's blood flowing. Trust is the color of a soul's last breath. Trust is the color of death.

If you ever meet a Malkieri," Noal said, "you tell him Jain Farstrider died clean.

We are dead men, Lews Therin murmured. Dead men should be quiet in their graves, but they never are.

What I do, I do because there is no other way. He is hunting me again, and this time one of us has to die, I think. There is no need for those around me to die, also. Too many have died for me already. I do not want to die either, and will not, if I can manage it. There are lies in dreams, and death, but dreams hold truth, too.

Tia mi aven Moridin isainde vadin (The grave is no bar to my call)

To die in the World of Dreams was to die in fact.

Death is lighter than a feather. Death arrives in a heartbeat, no more tangible than a flicker of light. It has no weight, no substance.

Elaida would charge her with falsely claiming to be the Amyrlin Seat. The penalty for that was death. Strangely, that brought no fear. Perhaps it was the herb working on her.