“Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.”
More from Khalil Gibran on Death
“What is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?”
“Death changes nothing but the masks that cover our faces.”
“I cannot tarry longer.The sea that calls all things unto her calls me”
“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”
“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and melt into the sun?”
Others on Death
Markus Zusak
10 quotes“...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more deat...”
Anne Rice
7 quotes“I watched him rise from the coffin, with slow, elegant gestures; our gestures, for we are the only beings who routinely...”
Terry Pratchett
7 quotes“And he goes around killing people?” said Mort. He shook his head. “There’s no justice.”Death sighed. No, he said... ther...”
Neil Gaiman
5 quotes“A grayeyard is not a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy..”
Gabriel García Márquez
5 quotes“Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.”
John Donne
5 quotes“Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.”
Edgar Allan Poe
5 quotes“Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.”
Graham Greene
4 quotes“We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.”
Emily Dickinson
4 quotes“Parting is all we know of Heaven,and all we need of Hell.”
Joseph Stalin
4 quotes“Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.”
Charles Bukowski
4 quotes“I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming fo...”
Samuel Beckett
4 quotes“They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.”