Thomas Hobbes Quotes

My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach.

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

Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.

Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

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

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

The journey is over. Love to all.

Why, I am about doing very well, for I am preparing myself, sir, for a place where hardly any majors, and very few Lieutenant-Generals go. God save us, why should there be such a bustle about the taking off of an old grey head that cannot get up three steps without two men to support it?

Death. It doesn't have to be boring.

I read in announcements of deaths 'peacefully in his sleep' and I wonder how many of those are true. Maybe they are just conventional. I hope they are true whenever I read it of someone. [But] I would rather be awake. Peacefully awake, brim full of some calming drug that was seeing me out of the door, having said my farewells.

Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path.

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

Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.

At my door the Pale Horse stands to carry me to unknown lands.

Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark.

Something has spoken to me in the night...and told me that I shall die, I know not where. Saying: "[Death is] to lose the earth you know for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.

Death is but a word to us. One's own experience alone can teach us the real meaning of the word. The sight of the dying does little. What one sees of them is merely what precedes death: dull unconsciousness is all we see. Whether this be so,--how and when the spirit wakes to life again,--this is what all wish to know, and what never can be known until it is experienced.

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

What it must feel like, I thought, to look at something, anything really, and know that it’s for the last time?

To be born is to start the journey towards death.

I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'.

No, I'll repine at death no more, But with a cheerful gasp resign To the cold dungeon of the ground These dying, withering limbs of mine. Let worms devour my wasting flesh, And crumble all my bones to dust:-- My God shall raise my frame anew, At the revival of the just.

I'd never really thought past the whole dying-for-the-sake-of-the-world part of things. When you're alive, you don't dwell on how you're going to spend your time once you're dead. You just figure you're gone, and the rest will pretty much take care of itself.

He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.