top of page
.png){kind=small}
Exlpore more Death quotes
"The dead aren't scary. They are just sad."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.Put out the light, and then put out the light:If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,I can again thy former light restore,Should I repent me: but once put out thy light,Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,I know not where is that Promethean heatThat can thy light relume."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Nothing in his life became him like leaving it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Susan stared at him.The blue glow in Death's eyes gradually faded, and as the light died it sucked at her gaze so that it was dragged into the eye sockets and into the darkness beyond, which went on and on, for ever. There was no word for it. Even eternity was a human idea. Giving it a name gave it a length; admittedly, a very long one. But this darkness was what was left when eternity had given up. It was where Death lived. Alone."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Nico didn't like to be touched, but somehow this brief contact with his father felt reassuring " the same way the Chapel of Bones was reassuring. Like death, his father's presence was cold and often callous, but it was real " brutally honest, inescapably dependable."
Author Name
Personal Development
"They found him guilty, and brother, if Maine had the death penalty, he would have done the airdance before that spring's crocuses poked their heads out of the dirt."
Author Name
Personal Development
Explore more quotes by Idries Shah
"The Sufi saying has it: "God, to the bee, is something which has TWO stings!"
Faith
"The Sufi teacher's mission is to be in the service of those who can learn."
Education
"The task is to learn to live in peace with one's own nature."
Peace
"Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion."
Teaching
"One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets..."
Mortality
"The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces."
Health
"Certain levels of human understanding cannot be attained, it is claimed, until the brain can work in more than one way."
Knowledge
"However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can't run away from your own feet."
Self-Awareness
"You will never reach Mecca, I fear: for you are on the road to Turkestan."
Journey
"How many friends would you have if you went from one to another asking them to conceal a dead body?"
Trust
bottom of page