Death-and-dying Quotes

...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for hu...

(I didn’t tell him that thediagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratula...

War didn't scare me. I just didn't want to go all the way-hell over there to fight one. I had a repu...

Chip, she’s gone,” and he said, “I thought I’d feel her looking down on us, but you’re right. She’s ...

To die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier.

There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and ...

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING thing...

That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the...

Curley's wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and the plannings and the dis...

Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.

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

The dead teach this great lesson, which we are loathe to learn: we too will die.

Without warning, David was visited by an exact vision of death: a long hole in the ground, no wider ...

Sometimes Edith came into the room and sat on the bed beside him and they talked. They talked of tri...

She died in my arms saying, “I don’t want to die.” That is what death is like. It doesn’t matter wha...

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

We are so afraid of the idea of having to die… that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as i...

He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagi...

When my own time comes, will I too long for the sea? I think I will be content enough with the soil....

In the depths of his soul Ivan Ilyich knew that he was dying... he simply did not, he could not poss...

It's strange how deliberate people are after a death. All the indecision suddenly vanishes into clea...

[HAMILTON]I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory

Your father calls you to his court. You need not pack. You go garbed in glorious raiment. He waits e...

So many things that are so dramatic or exciting when you read about them actually happen so simply a...

Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were co...

Goodbyes are not easy, but I'm ready to move on. I'm not reluctant, Emma, not holding back. I don't ...

The palliative care nurses welcome him: he's a spot of brightness, they claim he keeps the patients ...

Fran had from an unsuitably early age been attracted by the heroic death, the famous last words, the...

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

Warm summer sun, shine brightly here, Warm Southern wind, blow softly here, Green sod above, lie ...

I deserve it all. Let the cold world do its worst; one thing I know--there's a grave somewhere for m...

A carpenter is hired- a roof repaired, a porch built. Everything that can be fixed. June, July, Augu...

Smrt je preseljenje iz kuće u kuću. To nije nestanak već drugo rođenje. Kao što prsne ljuska jajeta ...

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and ad...

And do you know the story about Haydn’s head? They cut it away from the still-warm cadaver so some i...

Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.

A person's destiny often ends before his death.

I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of ...

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

We are, as we die, who we most were in life...

In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. W...

But it's hard to explain, Mitch. Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer than I e...

You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here...Death en...

Obviously the raven with the unquenchable itch was at it again, playing tricks on the world and its ...

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter...

Jamie: You know what I figured out today?Landon: What?Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than...

It was inevitable, of course, but somehow it didn't seem right to Alex that they would never remembe...

Everybody dies. There’s nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day. Wheth...

Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the t...

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

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

After all, Malthus was wrong. Marx was wrong. Democracy did not die during the Great Depression as t...

And the camel driver had said, to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day w...

I imagined my coffin being closed, and the screws being turned. I was immobile, but I was alive, and...

I can’t bear the thought of oblivion, Asriel,” she continued. “Sooner anything than that. I used to ...

...I wondered at times whether I would wake up and this would be just a bad dream, a nightmare that ...

Death is our friend, precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all t...

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.

The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. I...

Her strategy for honoring the dead had always been to take action - solve the mystery, punish the cr...

Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

Posthumous: It sounds like the name of a Roman gladiator, an unconquered gladiator. At least that’s ...

I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of d...

And perhaps there is none, no morrow anymore, for one who has waited so long for it in vain. And per...

And what after all, is death?? 'Tis but a cessation from mortal life; 'tis but the finishing of an a...

The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or hear...

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows...

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if...

I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’l...

It appears that some part of Slothrop ran into the AWOL Džabajev one night in the heart of downtown ...

It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it prope...

In the latter months of his own long sickness the Master Herbal had taught him much of the healer's ...

This StoneHe went looking for a roadthat doesn't lead to death.He went looking for that roadand foun...

Death twitches my ear;'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming.

Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terri...

In a sense, we are all crashing to our death from the top story of our birth ... and wondering with ...

The theme of the book is simple: a man is dying: you feel him sinking throughout the book; his thoug...

If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

The wretch, concentred all in self,Living, shall forfeit fair renown,And, doubly dying, shall go dow...

I sat down in a chair by the bed. The house got altogether still again, and I thought he was asleep....

This is the man who will be my grandfather—the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The t...

I understood him. He wanted to die at home. He didn't want to be going someplace all the time for th...

This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds...

As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare ...

What passing bells for these who die as cattle?Only the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stutter...

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

Do you believe that you will die? Yes man is mortal I am a man ergo... no that isn't what I mean. I ...

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

I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow,and somehow, each of us will help the other live,and so...

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

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirte...

We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prest...

Here now in his triumph where all things falter, Stretched out on the spoils that his own hand sprea...

Your body's dying...pay no attention

On the flight over to Chicago, I thought of a story Mom had once told me from her days as a pediatri...

This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the ga...

Can you not see death as the friend and deliverer? It means stripping off that body which is torment...