Death And Dying Quotes

You become a changed person when you face the reaper and deny him your soul.

~ Martha Sweeney

Between the dark, heavily laden treetops of the spreading chestnut trees could be seen the dark blue of the sky, full of stars, all solemn and golden, which extended their radiance unconcernedly into the distance. That was the nature of the stars. and the trees bore their buds and blossoms and scars for everyone to see, and whether it signified pleasure or pain, they accepted the strong will to live. flies that lived only for a day swarmed toward their death. every life had its radiance and beauty. i had insight into it all for a moment, understood it and found it good, and also found my life and sorrows good.

~ Hermann Hesse

As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul.

~ Wilfred Owen

No great soul, as they say, lives for very long. Because God desperately wants all the great people near him.

~ Pawan Mishra

His spirit chaunged house and wente ther,As I cam nevere, I kan nat tellen wher.

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Before we're born we've all of us been dead for millions of years...but we're always afraid of going back...

~ Leonardo Donofrio

If only humans could die like the autumn leaves, with a splash of beauty and the promise of another season.

~ Shana Chartier

Three, 300, or 3,000 - these are the number of unknown days, a week, a year, or a decade, each far too precious little and yet, poignantly too much at the same time, to see an irrevocably declined loved one languish and suffer. That fear-ridden, irreversible release lingers in the doorway, but hesitates for reasons we don't understand, leaving us to weep with a mixture of angst and gratitude all at the same time. It is finally ushered all the way in, to comfort and carry our loved one to that Better Place. When the time finally comes, we can be enveloped in a warm cloak of long-awaited acceptance and peace that eases our own pain. It quiets the grief which has moaned inside of us, at least some, every single one of those bittersweet days, weeks... or years.

~ Connie Kerbs

Three, 300, or 3,000 - these are the number of unknown hours, days, a week, a year, or a decade, each far too precious little and yet, poignantly too much at the same time, to see an irrevocably declined loved one languish and suffer. That fear-ridden, irreversible release lingers in the doorway, but hesitates for reasons we don't understand, leaving us to weep a special cocktail of tears made of angst and gratitude, permeating us with some of the deepest emotions we will ever know. Finally, the release is ushered all the way in, to comfort and carry our loved one to that Better Place. It also envelopes us in a warm cloak of acceptance and peace that eases our own pain. It quiets the grief which has moaned inside of us, at least some, every single one of those bittersweet hours, days, weeks... or years.” Until that day of our own flying away, and beholding our loved one again, in that Beautiful Paradise.

~ Connie Kerbs

The loss of a loved one is like the loss of a part of oneself; an arm or a leg. At first, the pain is so physical that it is hard to ignore. The trauma is so intense that the mind finds it hard to cope with the loss. With time the pain eases, the body recovers and the brain figures out new ways to go on.

~ Federico Chini

It's nice to see how the suffering goes away in time. It always does

~ Kathrin Schmidt

When you lose someone untimely; all left is never ending guilt, fear, and pain.

~ Nikita Dudani

When you loose someone untimely; all left is never ending guilt, fear, and pain.

~ Nikita Dudani

When we ponder the vastness of the universe and eternity, we are closer to understanding the role of death in the mysterious life we are all experiencing. Through these realizations, greater acceptance of the inevitability of death positions us to be happier in our lives. After my journey through these ideas I feel strongly that happiness and a deeper understanding of death are linked phenomena that offer a fuller existence.

~ Loren Mayshark

... after daybreak is when I will already have died. At that moment I will only know of beautiful things: the certainties, the desires. When the sun bathes me, I will be something else: without mirrors, without sadness. I will have passed away, but will have been reborn. I will whistle mellifluous melodies. Discredited but, in the end, light.

~ Ondjaki

You can get over a million dollars worth of life insurance in case you die, but only eight to ten bucks and hour to live

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze of glory, myself, or maybe simply disappear someday, far out in the heart of the wilderness I love, all by myself, alone with the Universe and whatever God may happen to be looking on. Disappear - and never return. That's my fantasy.

~ Edward Abbey

You’re too much of a bitch to go gently into that good night.”“You should put that on a greeting card.

~ Se Zbasnik

Life is the only thing which can never be replaced when lost.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I haven’t been able to pray with the same unquestioned simplicity of hope since Dustin passed. My childhood ended the day my brother died. The naive hope that a miracle would save him, that he would one day walk, that a disease was a blessing in my family – that hope died with him.

~ Darcy Leech

Do what is right and what is good. -- Bryeison to Alasdair before going to his death on the battlefield.

~ Michelle Franklin

A carpenter is hired- a roof repaired, a porch built. Everything that can be fixed. June, July, August. Everyday we hear their laughter. I think of the painting by van Gogh, the man in the chair. Everything wrong, and nowhere to go. His hands over his eyes.

~ Mary Oliver

I replayed the moment I first saw him at the picnic throughout our years together. As corny as it may sound, from the first glance we shared near the cake stand at the picnic, the two of us remained connected like the icing on one of those made from scratch cakes...

~ Kat Kaelin

It’s just another stop on the curvy roadthe final encounterfor the man who has liveddeath is the answer.

~ Mie Hansson

People tend to think that death is absolute, the one thing we can all be certain about, but that’s not the case. Death is complex. It’s powerful and timeless. The truth is, when it comes to death, nothing is impossible.

~ Jacqueline E. Smith

Growing older is a blurred birth certificate that only can take us to this world’s perplexed journey, but it cannot smear the letters of the epitaph

~ Munia Khan

Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Death is just a door that only love can come and go through.

~ T.l. Moffitt

War didn't scare me. I just didn't want to go all the way-hell over there to fight one. I had a reputation after that--I pretended I shot myself by accident, but everyone knew. I never did lose that reputation, but now most everyone is dead, and y'all ain't got any stories from them, so you have to believe mine by default: They were cowards, too. Everyone is.

~ John Green

The impeccable watchmaker geared the noble self to suffer. The ineluctable part of being human is perpetual sorrow, grief, and misery. Suffering is part of living. Life begins joyously and regretfully ends in tragedy. The cold realities of the world triumphantly crush each one of us. Between birth and death is comedic conjugation, the haunting prelude to the end of the self.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The Romans’ ideal was torn between heroism and glory. Both are epitomized in the instant of death. To die ‘fine death’ was their obsession: to snatch that moment, to gather - carpere - the instant of death. Tiberius died from the effort he had expended at the age of seventy-three by throwing the javelin at a boar in the arena at Circeii. The moment of death isn’t just a subject for painters. It isn’t simply the stuff of the odes and annals. The moment of death exists in the amphitheatre: human sacrifices, bullfights, denudations, tortures and carnivorous scenes. The ancient Romans had taken over the ‘sport’ associated with the figure of Phersu from the Etruscans. The populus romanus gambled on the men who would be put to death within the next hour- The jus gladii - this is the Roman Empire (the right of the sword, the right of life and death).

~ Pascal Quignard

I am waltzing with death, flirting with him, but he stands there smiling and saying nothing because he does not need to woo or be wooed: he knows he gets us all in the end.

~ Nenia Campbell

Such is true joy’s absolute certainty,Its slow lit fuse that burns holesIn the shabby shroud of death forever.

~ Scott Hastie

I live nearby a graveyard, that's where I get all my inspiration for wisdom and life

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

When family gathers around for a dying loved one, I have realised, that it probably does more good for the living, than for the dying. Sometimes, death can bring the living together, and death can cause the living to find solace in one another. In this way, death is a part of life, and those who die can in fact give gifts to the living, gifts that they were not able to give while they were still alive and well.

~ C. Joybell C.

Be happy but when sad times come, know that God allow these time for self-realisation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

As I witness the dead of beloved ones, it makes be become more conscious that life indeed has an end.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do I have anything to lose? This life will be gone one day to the Creator who gave it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life on earth is temporary. May we pursue peace and live in harmony with one another.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

At the end of life, nobody knows where the spirit goes.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita