Death And Dying Quotes

It is better to die than carry the burden of expectations, you die every moment then, bearing situations you are not supposed to put up with.

She could forgive him for missing their dinner date, but she would never forgive him for dying.

I’m curious about why there’s so much honor given to death, when there is no honor in losing someone you love.

Biology includes the study of the human death which began when you took your first breath

We die well when we die with purpose fulfilled".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

Dying on your own terms, this is the greatest gift anyone can bestow upon a mortal man.

That's the secret. If you always make sure you're exactly the person you hoped to be, if you always make sure you know only the very best people, then you won't care if you die tomorrow.

The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.

In the moment I faced dying, I finally knew my reason for living.

Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death

Time, " the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

We are so afraid of the idea of having to die… that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn…

How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

This was how the world ended. Not with a bang, but with a whimper.

Life is stressful, dear. That's why they say "rest in peace.

It was during this terrible night that the three wounded died, and the jeeps froze solid.

I've been to the other side...You're dead there, too.

The reason dying is so easy is because death has no meaning... And the reason death has no meaning is because life has no meaning. All the same, have fun!

Are you afraid to die?'Cause it scares the hell outta me, And the end is all I can see, And it scares the hell outta me, That the end is all I can see.

None of us are getting out of here alive".

I've been ready to die since before you was Born!

Strange, how death had a way of turning a table upside down in an instant. It swept away all the dust that covered treasures, blew the fog from one’s view, knockedaway facades.

There is a thin line that separates life from death, but once it's crossed, it becomes as large as an ocean, and so treacherous that it’s impossible to cross back.

Posthumous: It sounds like the name of a Roman gladiator, an unconquered gladiator. At least that’s what poor Posthumous would like to believe. It gives him courage.

I discovered the bleeding when he licked my hand and left a swath of blood behind, death's autograph.

You’ll live for as long as you live, and once you stop living, you don’t have to worry about staying alive any more because you’ll be dead.

It was good that she remembered him, though it was exhausting to do so.No rest for the weary. Or the dying. Or the dead.

‎"The days are hot and the dead lie unburied. We cannot fetch them all in, if we did we should not know what to do with them. The shells will bury them...

As Ossie Jones crept out of his body and into the mist, his heart murmured till it was silent.

Jest when we stopped wanting to kill ourselves, we started to die.

Just when we stopped wanting to kill ourselves, we started to die.

I couldn't imagine her leaving this world without ripping its fabric.

What is death if not these words that I say

Dying is something else. Dying is different to good and bad.

[G]ive him this much: death didn't just walk up and inhale him. He wasn't exactly whisked away. He left claw marks on his life.

How easy it would be just to let go, to go willingly into all that wonderful energy.

I kept a picture of me kissing my dad’s corpse on the forehead in my wallet for years. I’d break it out any time someone showed me a baby picture, just so they would know how it ends.

I don't want to die. I want to live. I want to live long enough so I can really live.

The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead.

What were we, but kids with apartments and jobs anyway?

Christopher was wearing a suit and adorned make-up. As long as I had known him, he never wore a suit or make-up. The look of him defenseless to his appearance saddened me.

Dream-start with dream. Start tonight-become who you want-dream big!" He became animated at this point, "No money needed for dreams. Dreams are free.

In times such as these, life often begs us to seek answers when in reality there are only questions available.

It’s funny how books can change you. You open up a book and one minute you are who you’ve always been, then you read some random passage and you become someone else.

We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we endured birth. You can’t share either experience.

Each man is master of his own death and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

Did not we vow that we would neither of us be either before or after the other even in travelling the last journey of life? And can you find it in your heart to leave me now?

Dying only means moving into a nicer house. We have only gone into the next room.We still are what we have always been.We aren’t far away. We are only on the other side of the pathway.

Couples swayed and embraced to the beat as the singer's vocals soared above a group of confused teenagers and twenty-something's.

I feel like a little tug in a great storm. But I'm fastened to a great ship on ahead. It's going into port and can't lose its way.