Laura Nyro Quotes

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

You live you die and death not ends it.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door.

If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?

What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.

Death is one dream out of another flowing.

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.

But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it's death. Anything. Something. Nothing.

As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.

When we are dead; rugs are no richer than a quick-thorn bed.

Only death rescues us from dying.

I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.

Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

Death promises nothing--not even oblivion.

Death is an antidote for this life, and it makes another more stable form of life which is insoluble in everything.

Death is only a small interruption.

We die, and we do not die.

Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.

When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.