Death And Dying Quotes

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

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

Why is such a bad thing to die?

On my strand, lovely flowers their blossoms unfold, My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold.

We know everyone we love is going to die, but we don't know it, can't possibly believe it, she thought, or long ago I would have gone and started digging until I had a hole big enough to lie down in.

Your body's dying...pay no attention

DEATH IS A PROFOUND LESSON IN TRUTH: We grow to understand more about it from childhood until the day we must cross the mystic chasm and abandon the land of the living.

Perhaps we meet our heaven at the start and not the end of life.

We would like to think of death as a release from the pressures of existence, but this is a fatally mistaken thought: it is the ultimate culmination of those pressures.

Veins of ivy scale stones, find footholds butthe caretaker cuts earth short, peels creepers from Cotswold rock and props the deadhead to head so they won’ttopple like drunkson their moss-soft shadows.

My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

You never know when you're going to die, but maybe something in you does, some cellular consciousness that's aware of the cosmic countdown and starts making plans.

A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty. But one no longer has the right to say so aloud.

Too evident sorrow does not inspire pity but repugnance, it is the sign of mental instability or of bad manners: it is morbid.

She was infamous once upon a time. She's legendary now. The girl is a definite force to be reckoned with, though perhaps she doesn't know it yet.

There will be no beautiful widow with Persian eyes sitting at your grave. And teary-eyed kids won't be asking: "Papa, papa, can you hear us?

Death is what happens when you die.

No one dies pre-maturely. As is meant, happens naturally

It made leaving bearable, knowing I'd had that kind of love in my life. Knowing I'd had the best thing.

I really like people. But I don't know how it will end.

From our birth we are all dying, but some of us finish sooner than others.

But who thinks of death in the middle of life?"-Mike RogersEndless Night by Agatha Christie

They say that a near death experience makes a person see a flash of their past, but that hasn't happened to me at all.

​It is not enough to write and deliver a funeral service for a grieving family…you must love them too.