Valhalla Death Quotes

Even without being killed a man can experience death, he can conquer, he can realize the culmination characteristic of a 'super-life'. From a higher point of view, Paradise, the Kingdom of Heaven, Valhalla, the Island of the Heroes, etc., are only symbolic figurations forged for the masses, figurations that in reality designate transcendent states of consciousness, beyond life and death. The ancient Aryan tradition used the term jivan-mukti to indicate such a realization while still in the mortal body. ~ Julius Evola

I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom's realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer's Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content. ~ Robert E. Howard

But we do not choose our deaths. The Norns do that at the foot of Yggdrasil and I imagined one of those three Fates holding the shears above my thread. She was ready to cut, and all that mattered now was to keep tight hold of my sword so that the winged women would take me to Valhalla's feasting-hall. ~ Bernard Cornwell

There is no number so unlucky as thirteen. Once, in Valhalla, there was a feast for twelve gods, but Loki, the trickster god, went uninvited and he played his evil games, persuading Hod the Blind to throw a sprig of mistletoe at his brother, Baldur. Baldur was the favorite god, the good one, but he could be killed by mistletoe and so his blind brother threw the sprig and Baldur died and Loki laughed, and ever since we have known that thirteen is the evil number. Thirteen birds in the sky are an omen of disaster, thirteen pebbles in a cooking pot will poison any food placed in the pot, while thirteen at a meal is an invitation to death. Thirteen spears against a fortress could only mean defeat. Even the Christians know thirteen is unlucky. Father Beocca told me that was because there were thirteen men at Christ's last meal, and the thirteenth was Judas. ~ Bernard Cornwell

But the attitude that Viking society held up as the ideal one was a heroic stoicism. In the words of archaeologist Neil Price, "The outcome of our actions, our fate, is already decided and therefore does not matter. What is important is the manner of our conduct as we go to meet it." You couldn't change what was going to happen to you, but you could at least face it with honor and dignity. The best death was to go down fighting, preferably with a smile on your lips. Life is precarious by nature, but this was especially true in the Viking Age, which made this fatalism, and stoicism in the face of it, especially poignant.
The model of this ideal was Odin's amassing an army in Valhalla in preparation for Ragnarok. He knew that Fenrir, "the wolf", was going to murder him one way or another. Perhaps on some level he hoped that by gathering all of the best warriors to fight alongside him, he could prevent the inevitable. But deep down he knew that his struggle was hopeless - yet he determined to struggle just the same, and to die in the most radiant blaze of glory he could muster. ~ Daniel McCoy

No man should go to Valhalla with brothel rash. ~ Mark Lawrence

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces. ~ Mark Lawrence

He wanted to work in Hot Woman Valhalla until he died of testosterone poisoning. (Nick) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches. ~ Albert Camus

Death by drowning, death by snakebite ... death by memory loss, death by claymore ... death by paper cuts, death by whoreknife, death by poker game ... death by authority, death by isolation, death by genocide, death by Kennedy ... death by signature, death by silence ... death by performance ~ Colum McCann

I do not regard the rise of woman as a bad sign. Rather do I fancy that her traditional subordination was itself an artificial and undesirable condition based on Oriental influences. Our virile Teutonic ancestors did not think their wives unworthy to follow them into battle, or scorn to dream of winged Valkyries bearing them to Valhalla. ~ H.P. Lovecraft

I am a brave warrior in my internal Battle of Valhalla. ~ John Green

Die painfully. Go to Valhalla. Gain the ability to drag rancid, colossal severed heads across a dock. Hooray. ~ Rick Riordan

As for the primitive, I hark back to it because we are still very primitive. How many thousands of years of culture, think you, have rubbed and polished at our raw edges? One probably; at the best, no more than two. And that takes us back to screaming savagery, when, gross of body and deed, we drank blood from the skulls of our enemies, and hailed as highest paradise the orgies and carnage of Valhalla. ~ Jack London

It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confronting your own mortality ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Since moving to Valhalla, I'd learned an impressive number of Old Norse cusswords. Meinfretr translated as something like stinkfart, which was, naturally, the worse kind of fart ~ Rick Riordan

I'm very proud of 'Valhalla Rising.' ~ Mads Mikkelsen

Wow. Another realm, huh? Your zealous delusions continue to impress me. Is this where we fly off to Olympus or Valhalla or Heaven or something? ~ Giselle Simlett

Someone's killed 100,000 people. We're almost going, "Well done! You killed 100,000 people? You must get up very early in the morning! I can't even get down the gym. Your diary must look odd: 'Get up in the morning, death, death, death, death, death, death, death - lunch - death, death, death - afternoon tea - death, death, death - quick shower ... ' " ~ Eddie Izzard

The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla. ~ J.D. Salinger

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room. ~ Joanna Lumley

Death is never an ending, death is a change;
Death is beautiful, for death is strange;
Death is one dream out of another flowing. ~ Conrad Aiken

But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man's best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free. ~ Mark Twain

Death? Why all this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition to life, not an evil. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

For watching death, and above all, after death; not death in battle, but death after battle, brings one to certain indifferences that are also a form of death. ~ Mary Butts

I would be less frightened of death (not just my own death but Welty's death, Andy's death, Death in general) if I thought a familiar person came to meet us at the door, ~ Donna Tartt

Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life. ~ Alan Bradley

The greatest loss is the lost of life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness. ~ Epicurus

Death when to death a death by death hath given
Then shall be op't the long shut gates of heaven.
[Mors, mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset (dedisses).] ~ Thomas Heywood

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? ~ Woody Allen

Death" is never an end, but a To Be Continued... ~ Renée Chae

As we witness the death of departed souls, other people will observe our departure from the world. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Death makes everything else sad. But death itself only scares. If there wasn't death, all the other things wouldn't get tainted. ~ Ray Bradbury

You want to know the meaning of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life? ~ Kahlil Gibran

Death is only the death of death not the death of life. ~ Muhammad Ankan

Death is a misery. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Everybody hates death, fears death, but only those, the believers who know the life after death and the reward after death, would be the ones who will be seeking death. ~ Mohamed Atta

His death brings new experience to my life - that of a wound that will not heal. ~ Ernst Junger

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love ~ Madame De Stael

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. ~ Francis Bacon

I could imagine Cnut sitting there and thinking that I must join him soon, and we would raise a horn of ale together. There is no pain in Valhalla, no sadness, no tears, no broken oaths. ~ Bernard Cornwell

A death without being a loss to anybody is the most unworthy death. ~ Alireza Salehi Nejad

When death takes a life, does death not slowly kill itself? ~ Nikolaj Thylkjær

DMX Death Threats Gun Death: 35, Generic Threat: 20, Beat Up to Death: 6, Non-Gun Weapon: 5, Robbery Death: 2, Death by Truth: 1 "Niggas wanna lie/Then niggas wonder why/Niggas wanna die" There are 69 death threats on DMX's It's Dark and Hell Is Hot ~ Shea Serrano

Noah was a funeral pyre. He was burning. The flames rose to staggering heights and blazed in white, hot tongues. Jeremie had once told him a story of the burial rites of the Norse. They'd burn their dead, believing the high smoke carried their loved ones' souls to Valhalla.

Noah was beyond Valhalla. Beyond the creamy spaciousness above the clouds, beyond the limits of the very earth. He floated among the stars, joined them in holy communion, knew each one by name. Then they were within him, scores of them, bright and hot, turning his ribs into a furnace as they shifted and created constellations in his soul. And all the while, the summer sang in his lungs.

There was no space between him and Jeremie. Where one ended, the other began, and still Jeremie pulled him closer like the moon pulls the tide, gripping him tightly in the same way he'd gripped Noah's heart, had gripped his entire being. ~ Lily Velez

Everybody is afraid of death for the simple reason that we have not tasted of life yet. The man who knows what life is, is never afraid of death; he welcomes death. Whenever death comes he hugs death, he embraces death, he welcomes death, he receives death as a guest. To the man who has not known what life is, death is an enemy; and to the man who knows what life is, death is the ultimate crescendo of life. ~ Rajneesh

When you take someone's hand and lead them to Valhalla, you get a glimpse into their soul."

"Did that happen when you took me?"

"With you, there wasn't much to see. It's very dark in there. ~ Rick Riordan

Those who have known death from inside lose all fear of death. ~ Rajneesh

The greatest mystery in life is not life itself, but death. Death is the culmination of life, the ultimate blossoming of life. In death the whole life is summed up, in death you arrive. Life is a pilgrimage towards death. From the very beginning, death is coming. From the moment of birth, death has started coming towards you, you have started moving towards death. ~ Rajneesh

The death close before me was terrible, but far more terrible than death was the dread of being misremembered after death ~ Charles Dickens

There is no death. The thing that we call death
Is but another, sadder name for life. ~ Richard Henry Stoddard

The death of a lesser man is the death of all those who believe themselves to be greater. ~ Shaun Hick

We all owe life a death, an inevitable death which we can meet. But the unnecessary death that wastes life denies all consolation. ~ Laura Bohannan

Control thought of the theories as "slow death by," given the context: Slow death by aliens. Slow death by parallel universe. Slow death by malign unknown time-traveling force. Slow death by invasion from an alternate earth. Slow death by wildly divergent technology or the shadow biosphere or symbiosis or iconography or etymology. Death by this and by that. Death by indifference and inference. His favorite: "Surface-dwelling terrestrial organism, previously unknown." Hiding where all of these years? In a lake? ~ Jeff VanderMeer

Laughter. Yes, laughter is the Zen attitude towards death and towards life too, because life and death are not separate. Whatsoever is your attitude towards life will be your attitude towards death, because death comes as the ultimate flowering of life. Life exists for death. Life exists through death. Without death there will be no life at all. Death is not the end but the culmination, the crescendo. Death is not the enemy it is the friend. It makes life possible. ~ Rajneesh

Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield, but his sense of poetic justice, his sublime faith in life and its infinite resources, guided the battles. ~ Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Death isn't funny."
"Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us - us humans - death is so sad that we must laugh at it. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

Wherever you feel death, feel it. Don't escape. Death is beautiful; death is the greatest mystery, more mysterious than life. Through life you can gain the world, the futile world- meaningless, worthless. Through death you can gain the eternal. Death is the door. ~ Osho

It is good death
That puts an end to evil death and dies. ~ Wallace Stevens

Dave learned that Death is the opposite of peace: it's struggle, it's ugly, it's horrific, it's dirty. And ultimately, Death is emptiness. ~ Emily Bleeker

Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour. ~ Hans Fallada

Death, it seems, has a mind of its own. ~ Ruta Sepetys

Death is a distant rumor to the young. ~ Andy Rooney

I'm afraid of death ... Yes, but that doesn't stop death coming ... ~ Agatha Christie

Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

All his beauty, wit and grace
Lie forever in one place,
He who sang and sprang and moved
Now, in death, is only loved. ~ Alice Thomas Ellis

The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him. ~ Socrates

I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me. ~ Malala Yousafzai

Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning. ~ Tsunetomo Yamamoto

Death is the great equalizer ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Death is the remedy of all pain. ~ Saif Samir

And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself. ~ Charles Dickens

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character ... Would you slow down? Or speed up? ~ Chuck Palahniuk

Men are lonely and out of communication with one another because all their inventions speak only of death. Death is the automaton which rules the world of activity. Death is silent, because it has no mouth. Death has never expressed anything. Death is wonderful too
after life. ~ Henry Miller

What attention would death pay to his pathetic voice? He was powerless without her. ~ Ted Dekker

Let the pain & suffering of all that appears to be lost, be soothed, healed & comforted. ~ Eleesha

The aim of all life is death. Life is the apprenticeship that we serve preparing for death. Life is the fleeting spark of divinity that precedes a deathless eternity. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Death is the great equalizer of human beings. Death is the boundary that we need to measure the precious texture of our lives. All people owe a death. There is no use vexing about inevitable degeneration and death because far greater people than me succumbed to death's endless sleep without living as many years as me. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Love doesn't die with death. Love is like liquid; when it pours out, it seeps into others' lives. Love changes form and shape. Love gets into everything. Death doesn't conquer all; love does. Love wins every single time. Love wins by lasting through death. Love wins by loving more, loving again, loving without fear. ~ Kate O'Neill

It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death. ~ Terry Pratchett

Death is not grievous to me, for I shall lay aside my pains by death.
[Lat., Nec mihi mors gravis est posituro morte dolores.] ~ Ovid

An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
[Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.] ~ Tacitus

Having big audiences when you're on a book tour is like Valhalla if you're a person who used to sell Girl Scout cookies on the side. Because you want to give the reading that will sell the most books. ~ Eileen Myles

I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error. ~ George Ryan

I love you, but you are another death, a death that has stayed with me and befriended me as the old death in the lake did, but death all the same. ~ Gene Wolfe

I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality. ~ Raymond Moody

There is a Reaper, whose name is Death,
And, with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I once feared death. It is said that death begins with the absence of life. And life begins when death is no longer feared. I have stared death in the eye and survived. ~ Cheryl Kaye Tardif

Such a funny thing death is for mortals. You cry. You morn. You grieve. You get angry. But death is not always tragic, dear one. Sometimes death is the ultimate expression of love. ~ R.K. Ryals

Death twitches my ear;
'Live,' he says...
'I'm coming. ~ Virgil

We are surprised not by someone's death but by its cause or date. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Death sucks. Death sucks, mostly because it forces those who stay behind to survive. Death isn't merciful enough to take you too. Instead, death constantly jams down your throat the awful lesson that life does indeed go on, no matter what. ~ Harlan Coben

Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't. ~ Antonio Machado

What entity aboard this ship exhibits all the personality traits of a cold-blooded killing machine, combined with the monstrous, overweening vanity and laziness of a convalescent war god lounging in their personal Valhalla while their minions prepare their armor? There's only one answer.
The Persian tomcat sits underneath the alien horror, washing itself without concern. ~ Charles Stross

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

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. ~ Katharine Hepburn

Whoever said death couldn't be measured was wrong. Death was a football field. Death was a sprint. Death was measurable distance I wasn't fast enough to reach. ~ M.R. Merrick

Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace. ~ P. J. O'Rourke