Quotes About Death

Death! I had not thought Death had undone so many

Daffodil bulbs instead of balls Stared from the sockets of the eyes! He knew that thought clings round dead limbs Tightening its lusts and luxuries.

I thought that if I died To you, I who had only been a ghost to you, You might be able to find the road back To a time when you were real -

I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Oed' und leer das Meer.

Let me be no nearer In death's dream kingdom Let me also wear Such deliberate disguises Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves In a field Behaving as the wind behaves No nearer — Not that final meeting In the twilight kingdom

A restless shivering painted shadow In life, she is less than a shadow in death.

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,/All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,/... Where is the Life we have lost in living?/Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?/Where is the knowledge we have lost in information

That corpse you planted last year in your garden, "Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?

Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us — if at all — not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.

And I have seen the eternal footman hold my coat and snicker.

but set down/This set down/This: were we led all that way for/ Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly,/We had evidence and no doubt./I had seen birth and death,/But had thought they were different; this Birth was/Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.

There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference Which resembles the others as death resembles life, Being between two lives - unflowering, between The live and the dead nettle.

That sudden comprehension of the death of hope

I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice

We die with the dying; see they return and bring us with them.

You none of you understand how old you are And death will come to you as a mild surprise, A momentary shudder in a vacant room.

Now I end my death song. I give my farewell to mountain and sky. It has been good to be alive.

Oh, please, Barrick, sweet angry Barrick, don't fall in love with Death.

God grant me a quick honorable death, Isgrimnur prayed, and never let me be one of those old fools who sits by the campfire telling the young men that things will never be as good as they once were.

He shouldn't have had to die. Nobody should have to die, Miriamele said slowly. Especially while they're still alive.

Doctor Morgenes once told me that, in old Khand, they would kill the king's wives and concubines when he died, so that they could accompany him to the next life. Dear Simon, [Miriamele] said. I will leave word in my testament that they are not to kill you when I die. And I will do the same for you, dear Miri. But you may feel free to leap into my grave, as long as it's your own idea.

Death itself would turn coward and flee.

Nu börjar livet! utropade Erik Göransson och dog.

Silence is death, and you, if you talk, you die, and if you remain silent, you die. So, speak out and die.