Death Dying Quotes

The cancer set into her bones and whittled her down to nothing. The weariness of the world and the weight in her heart laid her to rest in January.

Death is a shadow that always follows the body

Death of destiny: dust

Embrace death, dance with it a while, and finally fall prey to it.

The truth in death can only be found in the dying itself.

Dead’s not good, but at least it’s simple.

Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul.

The trouble with dying...is that you don't get to see how everything turns out. You won't know the ending.

Moths and flames, mankind and death--there is little difference.

Every day we're one day closer to death. But there's no reason to rush into it.

The motionless person was once full of life in one moment in time. What a misery?

At the last moment she thought, I'm not ready.But she already knew the answer to that.Nobody was ever ready.

I'm on the last great journey here--and people ant me to tell them what to pack.

Everything had life to me, ’ he heard Enkidu murmur, ‘the sky, the storm, the earth, water, wandering, the moon and its three children, salt, even my hand had life. It’s gone. It’s gone.

Things change after you die, though- I guess because dying is about the lonliest thing you can do.

I'd like to take a long walk, to the edge of something.

The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone who knows they can really die at any time and someone who doesn't.

Though I had no respect for Jack Lewis, I respected the hole in his chest. He was dying, and you owe the dying your attention.

...[we] has left nothing durable to signalize his stay upon this planet.[we]eventually dies to the honest regret of [our] associates.

A good death is a death in solidarity with others. To prepare ourselves for a good death, we must develop or deepen this sense of solidarity.

You never know, until it happens, what you will owe the dead.

Being dead does have its advantages.”-Alastor

Death twitches my ear. "Live " he says "I am coming".

To die is a debt we must all of us discharge.

For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death.

As men we are all equal in the presence of death.

At last God caught his eye.

Death - the last voyage the longest the best.

Death is a delightful hiding-place for weary men.

Death is just a distant rumour to the young.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

I believe that the struggle against death the unconditional and self-willed determination to live is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.

In Spain the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

It may be that we have all lived before and died and this is Hell.

If there is another world he lives in bliss. If there is none he made the best of this.

Most persons have died before they expired - died to all earthly longings so that the last breath is only as it were the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten.

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

Do not go gentle into that good night Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage rage against the dying of the light.

At its most basic root the death or disintegration of one's parents is a harsh reminder of one's own mortality.

Mausoleum n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.

Epitaph n: an inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

Poisons pain you Rivers are damp Acid stains you And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful Nooses give Gas smells awful You might as well live.

And I looked and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death.

All human things are subject to decay And when fate summons monarchs must obey.

Let the tent be struck.

When a man dies he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.

Who never caused others to die Seldom rates a statue.

Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of nobility.

After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it.