Lemmy Quotes

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.

The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious.

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

There are remedies for all things but death.

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

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

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.

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

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Death is the most blessed dream.

I think that when I die, it might be some time until I know it.

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

To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

Once you're dead, your worries are over.

Nobody on this planet will ever be able to answer the question, 'What happens when you die?'

I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

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

Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.

I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.

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

So when I'm killed, don't wait for me, Walking the dim corridor; In Heaven or Hell, don't wait for me, Or you must wait for evermore. You'll find me buried, living-dead In these verses that you've read.