Dying Quotes

Once a flower is picked it immediately begins to die.

Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.

I am not ready to die, But I am learning to trust deathAs I have trusted life.I am movingToward a new freedom

We are all dying one by one. We all smell of mortality, and we can't wash it off.

Dreams link us to those who have already left this life.

The question of how to spend my life, of what my life is for, is a question posed only to me, and I can no more delegate the responsibility for answering it than I can delegate the task of dying.

Prate not to me of suicide, Faint heart in battle, not for pride I say Endure, but that such end denied Makes welcomer yet the death that's to be died.

Silence is a lie that screams at the light.

Heaven is a place where all the dogs you've ever loved come to greet you.

Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture).

Death is not the end death can never be the end. Death is the road. Life is the traveller. The Soul is the Guide

She was made mostly of coffee and empty spaces.

In spite of my suffering, at the thought that I was sure to end up by killing myself, I cried aloud and burst into tears.

Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse.

Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit.

I wonder if my first breath was as soul-stirring to my mother as her last breath was to me. – From 14 Days: A Mother, A Daughter, A Two-Week Goodbye

Funerals aren't scheduled.

Dying's a fearful popular activity these days so we often double 'em up.

Death’s life should have listened to the moonly whispers of breathing in the coldest nights

Like they just wanted to enjoy The Gus Waters Show while it was still in town.

Losing you're co-remember meant losing the memory itself.

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

A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.

Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.

The thing about love is that you will never run out of it. It's an ever-flowing river. So go ahead and LOVE. What are you saving all this love for — death?

Dying is a universe of its own.

If today is all you have to live, what will you do?

Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.

Death was a lens that would reveal things as they really were: what was important would assume its true importance what was unimportant would recede into the shadows.

Everybody dies. It’s no risk to lose your life. You knew it was lost from the beginning.

LoveHas a way of wiltingOr blossomingAt the strangest, Most unpredictable hour.This is how love is, An uncontrollable beastIn the form of a flower.

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

My life is never influenced by death because I am full of resurrections after so many spiritual and emotional demises

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.

Remember, you are as dispensable as the most indispensable king of kings, the mighty lord of silly worldly men.

Live joyfully this life. Once gone, who knows if we ever get it back. Atheists think we do not. Mystics say you will. Either way, chill.

Till the time Mother Nature takes away what she had bestowed upon us for free - this wonderful gift, of life. Value it, while you have it.

It is no use dying, before one does.

After you die, a rare friend or family member may carry your memory throughout life. Most will forget you. As if you were never here.

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.

With every breath you take, someone just took their last. Stop complaining about life. It has given you much more than what you appreciate.

If we don't think about our death until we die, how can we decide how we want to live?

Nobody ever goes before their time.

May a man live well-, and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.

[C]oncepts of dying in to a heaven or hell seem a good deal more political than spiritual. (124)

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

There is only one God and all atheists will learn that after their deaths

Souls are flowers, only God has the right to pluck them. But those who commit suicide: their souls are the rotten blossoms of devil's garden.

The dead never truly die. They simply change form.

Living a life somewhere else in your mind is nothing more than being a prisoner where you are.