Quotes About Death

There are three conditions that have to be met in order for a malevolent will to remain in the world after death. An enclosed space, water, and a slow death. One, two, three. In other words, if someone dies slowly, in an enclosed space, with water present, then usually that person's angry spirit will haunt the place. Now, look at this well. It's a small, enclosed space. There's water.

Look upon life and death; there is no separation between them, The right hand and the left hand are one and the same. Kabîr says: "There the wise man is speechless; for this truth may never be found in Vedas or in books.

Si tus ligaduras no son quebrantadas mientras vives ¿Qué esperanza de liberación puedes tener en la muerte?

The world is dying, but knows none how to Die: But, whosoever knows how to Die, dies not again.

O friend! hope for Him whilst you live, know whilst you live, understand whilst you live: for in life deliverance abides. If your bonds be not broken whilst living, what hope of deliverance in death?

U selu poput ovoga uvijek se na nešto ?ekalo: ili da neko do?e, ili da ode, na ro?enje nekog djeteta ili na ne?iju smrt. Uspavano je selo vazdan iš?ekivalo kakav doga?aj, tek bi se tada prenulo.

There is only so much one can do for the dead without joining them. The Caravan from Troon

Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.

I said to Life, 'I would hear Death speak.' And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, 'You hear him now.'

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.

Du glaubst, es ging mir um die Unsterblichkeit?" Ein raspelndes Kichern. "Darauf seid allein ihr Menschen so versessen. Keine andere Kreatur lebt in solcher Furcht vor ihrer eigenen Vergänglichkeit.

Der Tod kam beim Nacht und er kam nicht allein. Ein kleines Mädchen lief an seiner Seite.

The Apocalypse. Millions… billions of people dying. And that's just the first phase of it. The initial disaster has knock on effects. It kills so many people, but it isn't quite the end of the world. In our time though it looks like we are heading for that.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Every death is a burst of fuel I use to stoke the fires that sit inside me. But it's more than anger. It's love too. It's the fact that I care about the people who will die if I don't do this.", FADE by Kailin Gow

A sa naissance, il entre dans le royaume des rêves pour ne s'éveiller à la réalité qu'au moment de sa mort.

Grief was what you owed the dead for the necessary crime of living on without them.

Grief was the deal God struck with the angel of death, who wanted an unpassable river to separate the living from the dead; grief the bridge that would allow the dead to flit among the living, their footsteps overheard, their laughter around the corner, their posture recognizable in the bodies of strangers you would follow down the street, willing them to never turn around.

At Vipers, when the German gunners shot Afroze who chose to cry out his grief knowing the consequences rather than bear the death of a beloved in silence, a whisper burbled across the field: Ina lillahi wa inna illayhi rajiun. The men of the 40th, not all of them Muslim, whispered the words for the two dead men, and the prayer would have reached the gunners as wind on water or the sighs of ghosts.

He also knew that there is no escape from power like his, no exit, no way out of the predicament that being always on creates; there is only death.

Masses of Iraqis keep on dying for no palpably tangible reason that they can so much as identify to themselves, far less anyone else. Why?

At the time, I remained relatively calm before that spectacle of horrors, which is perhaps the most telling indication of just how desensitized I had become. The more I witnessed such atrocities and rubbed shoulders with death, the more I desired to stay alive, no matter the cost.

No one as intense as he was could could possibly have managed to survive until almost thirty without thinking about death from time to time.

Dying is common. Living is an outright scarcity. He who believes in death, will soon begin to revere life. He who believes in tomorrow, will have no value for today.