DEATH QUOTES XIV

quotations about death

Whatever it is that occurs at death, I believe it deserves to be called a miracle. The miracle, ironically, is that we don't die. The cessation of the body is an illusion, and like a magician sweeping aside a curtain, the soul reveals what lies beyond.

DEEPAK CHOPRA

Life After Death


Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret to life is to "die before you die"--and find that there is no death.

ECKHART TOLLE

The Power of Now


Death, lonely death,
Beneath the withered leaves.

FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

Blood Wedding


In accepting death as inevitable, we don't label it as a good thing or a bad thing. As one of my teachers once said to me, "Death happens. It is just death, and how we meet it is up to us."

JOAN HALIFAX

Being with Dying


The thorn of death falls from heaven, and its myriad forms leave us no room to move.

KOBO ABE

The Woman in the Dunes


How wonderful is Death,
Death and his brother Sleep!

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Queen Mab


For a single path leads to the house of Hades.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Telephos


While life could be evaded, death could not.

DEAN KOONTZ

Velocity


Death joins us to the great majority.

EDWARD YOUNG

The Revenge


Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede


Ah! hear the dirge that all mankind must learn:
Place not on earth thy trust,
For dust thou art, to dust shalt thou return,
Dust unto dust.

MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN

"Fame"


Death is the veil which those who live call life;
They sleep, and it is lifted.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Prometheus Unbound


Death is no more than a turning of us over from Time to Eternity.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude


You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for.

DAVID GERROLD

The Man Who Folded Himself


Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dispute and reformulation.

MARGARET LOCK

Twice Dead


Death stands above me, whispering low
I know not what into my ear:
Of his strange language all I know
Is, there is not a word of fear.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Death Stands above Me


Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to yield; or to sink out of life, having played and lost the game? That must be a strange feeling when a day of our life comes and we say, "Tomorrow, success or failure won't matter much: and the sun will rise, and all the myriads of mankind go to their work or their pleasure as usual, but I shall be out of the turmoil.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Vanity Fair


I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. Many a man has borne himself proudly on the scaffold; surely the same pride should teach us to think truly about man's place in the world. Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigour, and the great spaces have a splendour of their own.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

"What I Believe"


To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


To die for others is the highest purpose a person may achieve.

CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN & NANCY HOLDER

Ghost Roads