Death Quote by Idries Shah — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN:”

“One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...”

“Saying of the Prophet. The Bequest: I have nothing to leave you except my family.”

“Sayings of the Prophet”

“If wine is the enemy of religion, I shall devour the enemy of religion.”

“It is not Sufism if it does not perform its function for you. A cloak is no longer a cloak if it does not keep a man warm.”

“Why is it okay to put someone to death, but it’s not okay for those people to do it themselves?”

“Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise.”

“He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him it stood as the greatest of hurts. It was the very essence of the unknown; it was the sum of the terrors of the unknown, the one culminating and unthinkable catastrophe that could happen to him, about which he knew nothing and about which he feared everything.”

“He wasn’t ready for death, but if it came today, he would face it with his head held high and Alexander Lightwood’s name on his lips.”

“Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she was like before Clover died, because I don't think I really knew my own mother until I had children, and if she was different before, I don't remember.”

“All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.”