Top 69 Welcome Death Quotes
#1. What is there left for me after my purgatory of solitude? ... I welcome death as a version of life in which I will not be myself. There is a fallacy here which I ought to see but will not. For when I wake on the ocean floor it will be the same old voice that drones out of me ...
J.M. Coetzee
#2. What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?
Sigmund Freud
#3. In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.
Timothy Noah
#5. Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
Wilson Mizner
#6. Anxiety kills relatively few people, but many more would welcome death as an alternative to the paralysis and suffering resulting from anxiety in its severe forms.
David Barlow
#7. Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.
Mark Twain
#8. There a painless death awaits him who can no longer bear the sorrows of this life. If death is welcome let him seek it there.
Robert W. Chambers
#9. Many people [still] believe that at the time of your death, 1,000 Buddhas show up and welcome you into the paradise state.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#10. Sometimes at night
when the moon is almost
full and my hands go
numb from writing, I cleanse
myself of her poisoned love.
I welcome the water, the
inevitability of
death and embrace
the long painful road out
of love.
A.P. Sweet
#12. Death has a way of finding those who welcome it.
Sara Raasch
#13. Death is the force that will create your new life. It is a mechanism of transformation. Welcome it.
Lisa Cach
#14. Death would be a welcome release from these earthly joys I've known.
Tahereh Mafi
#15. To the young, indeed, death is sometimes welcome, for the young can feel. They love and suffer, and it wrings them to see their beloved pass into the land of shadows.
H. Rider Haggard
#16. The palliative care nurses welcome him: he's a spot of brightness, they claim he keeps the patients interested in life. "We don't think of the clients here as dying," one of them said to him on his first visit. "After all everyone's dying, just some of us more slowly.
Margaret Atwood
#17. Do you know how it feels to resign yourself to your fate? It is almost welcome. There was to be no more pain, no more fear, no more longing. It is the death of hope that comes as the greatest relief.
The Girl You Left Behind
Jojo Moyes
#18. Welcome to Israel, where chanting "Death to Arabs" is democracy, running over children is equality, and firing on funerals is peace.
Remi Kanazi
#19. The moment indifference took over, life began to subside. Few men rose out of it: most lost all impulse toward activity and ended by offering death at least a halfhearted welcome.
Larry McMurtry
#20. I don't fear death; I welcome it with open arms and a smirk. But until that wondrous day, I will continue to savor and celebrate all those who have graduated before me.
Nikki Sixx
#21. Some had come to look upon death as a mercy. Death meant warmth. Death was light. Life was cruel, cold, heavy and dark. Life was pain. Death was deliverance, and many would welcome it. Others doggedly clung to life and willed themselves to walk on.
Sage Steadman
#22. Welcome to thee,
O sword of eternity!
Through Buddha
And through Daruma alike
Thou hast cleft thy way.
Okakura Kakuzo
#23. They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
G. Gordon Liddy
#24. But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.
James Russell Lowell
#25. If you think by staying away from me you're keeping me safe, you're wrong, pussycat. If being with you means physical death, then I welcome it because I'm dead inside without you,
Ella Dominguez
#26. When death finally comes you will welcome it like an old friend, being aware of how dreamlike and impermanent the pheneomenal world really is.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
#27. There are no signs of religion at all; no priest to hear my sins, no God to push open the pearly gates, nor a devil to welcome me with a pitchfork. All of this seems so meaningless.
Nicholas A. McGirr
#28. I now can say I no longer fear death. Instead welcome it with open arms ...
A.R. Von
#29. Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
Marcus Aurelius
#30. Only those persons who have lived, really lived, are ready, welcoming, receptive, thankful to death. Then death is not the enemy. Then death becomes the fulfillment.
Rajneesh
#31. What is a man's life but a prelude to his death? And what is death but a long sleep, a most welcome forgetfulness.
Lisa M. Klein
#32. Santa Monica's only walkable if death is no hurdle. The air's the wrong colour. People put sunglasses on their dogs. It's a hideous place where humans are not welcome and those who stay suffer eight kinds of brain damage.
Warren Ellis
#33. Great is the Baptism that lies before you:44 a ransom to captives; a remission of offences; a death of sin; a new-birth of the soul; a garment of light; a holy indissoluble seal; a chariot to heaven; the delight of Paradise; a welcome into the kingdom; the gift of adoption!
Cyril Of Jerusalem
#34. Stagnation is death. With love, accept and welcome changes.
Debasish Mridha
#35. Your father calls you to his court. You need not pack. You go garbed in glorious raiment. He waits eagerly by his palace doors to welcome you, and has prepared a place at the high table, by his side, in the company of the great-souled, honored, and best-beloved.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#36. Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.
Stanislav Grof
#37. But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate.
Jim McDermott
#38. His in-house intercom greeted him with a cheery 'Welcome home, Bart,' and his server droid - custom-made to replicate Princess Leia, classic 'Star Wars,' slave-girl mode (he was a nerd, but he was still a guy) - strolled out to offer him his favorite orange fizzy with crushed ice.
J.D. Robb
#40. So here I was expecting at the very best a cordial welcome from the girls who were prepared to fight me to the death for someone I didn't want. Instead I was embraced.
Kiera Cass
#41. We anticipate Time, and welcome it when birth comes in the door, then we hate Time and curse it, when death exits the door.
Anthony Liccione
#42. Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.
Hosea Ballou
#43. Hardly anyone ever leaves. This is because Des Moines is the most powerful hypnotic known to man. Outside town there is a big sign that says, WELCOME TO DES MOINES. THIS IS WHAT DEATH IS LIKE. There isn't really. I just made that up. But the place does get a grip on you.
Bill Bryson
#44. But winter was necessary. Why else would the world have it? The trees seemed to welcome the season, from the way they changed colors before they dropped their leaves and went to sleep. Winter was a part of a cycle, like day and night, life and death.
Merrie Haskell
#45. Set yourself a goal so difficult that death will seem like a welcome reprieve.
Chuck Palahniuk
#46. Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked.
Nuruddin Farah
#47. However, because death is the only absolute equality among human beings on earth, even the ignoblest and the most welcome instance of it deserves a little ceremonious thought.
Glenway Wescott
#48. Because no one needs to live for ever. I think that sometimes you can outstay your welcome.
Gemma Malley
#49. Not being welcome is your greatest fear. It connects with your birth fear, your fear of not being welcome in this life, and your death fear, your fear of not being welcome in the life after this. It is the deep-seated fear that it would have been better if you had not lived.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#50. People say death is scary, and I used to be scared. I used to fear death. But death doesn't scare me anymore. I welcome it.
Rebecca Shea
#51. Welcome to Irkalla, the Land of the Dead," the woman said. "I am Ereshkigal, Queen of the Underworld.
Alan Kinross
#53. Welcome to vampire-ville." He chuckled.
S.L. Ross
#54. Ladies and gentlemen," I shout, "I would like to welcome you to my death!
Jennifer Niven
#55. He doesn't mind if he dies ... indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
William Golding
#56. Welcome," Vassily said, and smiled. He showed teeth. "To Immortal Battles. We don't fight to the death
we fight beyond death, in the world's most dangerous sport.
Rachel Caine
#57. Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.
G. Gordon Liddy
#58. Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
Che Guevara
#59. Welcome to the house of Gray and Graves where we never lie still and death is only the beginning ...
C.M. Stunich
#60. Love is the only thing that pays for birth, Or makes death welcome. Oh, dear God above This beautiful but sad, perplexing earth, Pity the hearts that know
or know not
Love!
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#61. My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.
Elizabeth I
#62. First love is like a revolution; the uniformly regular routine of ordered life is broken down and shattered in one instant; youth mounts the barricade, waves high its bright flag, and whatever awaits it in the future - death or a new life - all alike it goes to meet with ecstatic welcome.
Ivan Turgenev
#63. You are welcome to torture me to death for your amusement, only allow me to amuse myself a little in the same style.
Emily Bronte
#64. I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say, 'This is la-la land.' God doesn't say, 'Welcome to Earth. Everything's perfect. There's no crime. There's no murder. There's no death.' The world is imperfect, and you have to be on guard.
Luke Scott
#65. We wish you a happy and satisfying death. Welcome to the Other World.
Ofir Touche Gafla
#66. If there was a hell beyond what he knew, he would welcome it. He had no reason not to.
After all, a life without living was simply a death without dying. What more was there to fear or hate but life, endless life, with no respite?
Ais
#67. And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
#68. In a nuclear age, and in an age of serious environmental degradation, apocalyptic belief creates a serious second order danger. The precarious logic of self-interest that saw us through the Cold War would collapse if the leaders of one nuclear state came to welcome, or ceased to fear mass death.
Ian McEwan
#69. Look at your own poverty
welcome it
cherish it
don't be afraid
share your death
because thus you will share your love and your life
Jean Vanier
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