Charles Lamb Quotes

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.

Death. It doesn't have to be boring.

I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.

Death is perfectly safe. (55)

The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.

How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.

Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.

Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die.

Even death has a heart.

Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.

I g-g-guess...I'm dead?" she heard her own voice call out, strangely high-pitched and thin. For a long time, she heard nothing else. And then: "Hi, Dead. I'm Dan.

I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.

Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse.

Death means you are in the third person.

I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.

tiny: did someone die? me: yeah, i did. he smiles again at that. tiny: well, then... welcome to the afterlife.

Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.

Thus die I, thus, thus, thus. Now am I dead, Now am I fled; My soul is in the sky: Tongue, lose thy light; Moon take thy flight. Now die, die, die, die, die.

Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death. What happens in death we can picture in sleep. All our sufferings vanish in sleep. When death comes, all our mortal tortures cease; they cannot go beyond the portals of death.

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.