Death-and-dying Quotes

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...

Demons never die quietly, and a week ago the storm was a proper demon, sweeping through the Caribbea...

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every...

We never actively remember death,' Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not r...

If this is death, if we are dead or dying or even if we are living and just going to die, then what ...

Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

Prepare to evacuate soul in ten, in nine, eight.Chloe's splashing through the ankle-deep back-up of ...

Dying is something else. Dying is different to good and bad.

We cry for ourselves, don't we? Not for the dead. The dead are past caring.

Do you think I lie to you?No.But you think I might lie to you about dying.Yes.Okay. I might. But we'...

There ought to be at least as much common sense about living and dying as there is about going to th...

If I could control tomorrow's haze,The darkened shore wouldn't bother me,If I can't control the web ...

He had visited his family the evening before, eaten dinner with Renee and Chris, his grandson, in th...

One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.

It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the nee...

To the wizard death is merely a belief.

I kept a picture of me kissing my dad’s corpse on the forehead in my wallet for years. I’d break it ...

Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage agains...

To confront death, in any guise, is to identify with the victim and face what is unsettling and sobe...

I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze o...

We do not look for reason for logic in the passionate entreaties of those who are sick unto death; w...

They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars,Like petals from a rose,When suddenly across the l...

I wanted to keep looking at her because I wanted to never take my eyes from her, but still I had tol...

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death ...

One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa-- blessing it rather than in love with it.

The man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly,surrounded by men filled with hope and maki...

t nightfall, atthe oppressive moment of transition, a storm of carnivorous mosquitoes roseout of the...

My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.

Each man is master of his own death and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die wi...

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

Don't worry," he would say, smiling. "Dying is much more difficult than one imagines.

Be assured that any hurt to your spirit will pass in time. It is the nature of Death to take, but th...

I have walked in Death to the very precipice of the Ninth Gate," Abhorsen said quietly. "I know the ...

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust a...

[Howard's] eyes were open and very clear. I'd forgotten what a beautiful gray they were--illness and...

Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again for ever. ...

Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Not...

Everything I see reminds me that in a few days I shall no longer see it... It's horrible... I shall ...

It was nothing but a hole, a mouth open wide. You could lean over the edge and peer down to see noth...

I felt guilty that I hadn't thought of Kizuki right away, as if I had somehow abandoned him. Back in...

One had heard and read a great deal about death, and even seen a little of it, and knew by heart the...

He would not now conduct little Nell to the coast; he would not convey her by a steamer to Port Said...

She wasted and grew so thin that she no longer was a little girl, but the shadow of a little girl. T...

Between the dark, heavily laden treetops of the spreading chestnut trees could be seen the dark blue...

To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.

Death: When next we meet, the hour will strike for you and your friends.Antonius Block: And will you...