Death And Dying Quotes

If you lived a good life, you either lived to save or died to save… that which must be saved and kept. Your life would never be meaningless. Not even for a moment.

The best gift your true friends will ever give you is carry your casket with respect. So be good to those you consider exceptional.

When everything looks the same on the outside, yet everything has changed on the inside, we break. We break in half.This is the duality of loss.

Jöns: But feel, to the very end, the triumph of being alive!

Anything man can make, man can destroy.

Death is the first and final entry in the book of this life.

Death is easy, living difficult.

...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world. t

Franny understood then that grace was not like a present. It could not be given, and it could not be taken away.

You still are? There go my plans! And the suit I had bought to attend your funeral. Well, well. Anyway, do call me up when you an't.

Death is the vehicle God uses to get us from here to where we are going. Before you take that ride, make sure you know in what direction you are heading.

One Must Choose Among Both Parties Either To Be A Wise Man That Die To Live In Righteousness And Blissfulness For Eternity Or Be A Foolish Man That Lives To Die For Vanity.

We feel most alive when we are closest to death.

... [They] took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us all in its tracks.

Dying is a universe of its own.

Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever.

The music echoes in the emptiness. It reminds us where we came from and where we’re bound.

I’m not afraid of death, just of dying.

I always have a fear of loosing Love ones. Even if I don't want to see this happen, I will have to face the bitter truth sooner or later.

The courage to continue before the face of despair is the recognition in those eyes of darkness we find our own night vision. Women blessed with death-eyes are fearless.

No great soul, as they say, lives for very long. Because God desperately wants all the great people near him.

It's nice to see how the suffering goes away in time. It always does

You can get over a million dollars worth of life insurance in case you die, but only eight to ten bucks and hour to live

Do what is right and what is good." -- Bryeison to Alasdair before going to his death on the battlefield.

Death is just a door that only love can come and go through.

Life has to end, " she said. "Love doesn't.

Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in our heads open with a big hammer pronto, before Death arrives.

[W]ishing for immortality won't make life last any longer.

But never has the Call been so clearAs now, when death’s cool handEases my spirit from my fevered body--And I answer the Call of the Master—The Call to new Heights.

The mind is a useful tool but not a very good friend.

The essence of death is discovered in the gap between one moment ceasing and another one beginning. That essence is the wakefulness that is our true nature.

I sit with my knees pulled in tight and my arms wrapped around my shins. I can no longer feel my feet, as if blood refuses to spread so far from my heart.

I met death for the last time realizing that he, the creature I called, it because I did not want to believe came for me... Collecting.

Where were the scientific pamphlets that taught a woman how to listen to herself die?

The sky is but a looking glass into a pool of airless oceans, cast off into a dance of light and energy, leaving only a facet of guidance to navigate. Such an existence lays but within the mind man.

Death is not good. It’s just a fact. We don't need to give it so much importance. So I don't want to read anything that talks about it.

I don't want my life to be defined by what is etched on a tombstone. I want it to be defined by what is etched in the lives and hearts of those I've touched.

We want all the benefits of the resurrection without acknowledging our dependence on God as mortal creatures.

In her room death would come as a friend, a friend with cool gentle hands . . .

When those who name dead people have gone, there just remains the calmness of foreign cemeteries, in which nothing appears familiar and nothing frightens you.

Do you think I lie to you?No.But you think I might lie to you about dying.Yes.Okay. I might. But we're not dying.Okay.

If not his life, Rustom Iraqiwalla wanted his death to be worth something.

I'm merely dying to be remembered for simply writing about my living memories

There ought to be at least as much common sense about living and dying as there is about going to the grocery store and buying a loaf of bread.

Every flower returns to sleep with the earth.

Dying is more terrifying than actual death.

This is the man who will be my grandfather—the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The tenses slur and slide under the pressure of collapsed time.

You had a certain way of saying my name. It was the inflection maybe, something you put into those three syllables. And now you are gone and my name is just my name again, not the story of my life.

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.