Death And Dying Quotes

He’d seen a lot of bizarre items left at gravesides, like a carton of eggs, a pair of reading glasses, a bag of licorice, smooth stones, a spoon.

~ Sheri Webber

Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

~ Jane Austen

The stony silence of death, trapped by the original gravity of our sins,and the perpetuity of a long, leisurely yawn, a world where blood and bone no longer matter.

~ Brian D'ambrosio

And what after all, is death?? 'Tis but a cessation from mortal life; 'tis but the finishing of an appointed course; the refreshing inn after a fatiguing journey; the end of a life of cares and troubles; and, if happy, the beginning of a life of immortal happiness.

~ Samuel Richardson

The place smelled of commodes and playing cards, and before I was halfway to the end I had made a firm resolve never to begin to die. For me it would be all or nothing: no half measures, no lingering on the doorstep.

~ Alan Bradley

There are moments in our lives that define the people we will become in the future, like a symptom before an ailment, or the catalyst before the cure.

~ Brian Joyce

You know-portraits are odd things. How do you figure? I asked. Well at the time, that portrait told the whole story. It told the truth. We were a family-a happy family. Now that same portrait just looks like a lie.

~ Brian Joyce

He had defended himself against death from without, and then it had carried him off from within.

~ Hans Keilson

The price of coming from a small town is that everyone knows your story. Your book has been read, shelved, dusted, and re-read by everybody.

~ Brian Joyce

Popularity is like a girl in class that you can't ignore. She give you eyes when no one looks then turns to her friends and laughs some more.

~ Brian Joyce

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

~ Roger Ebert

I guess it was only fitting that to them PUNK was a four letter word. However, to people like Dylan and I-punk was our hearts-our souls. We grew up with a lot of uncertainties. To be a teenager isn't always pretty, and our music reflected that.

~ Brian Joyce

Character isn't something you talk about, it's something you show through your actions-through your every day habits.

~ Brian Joyce

Society gets by from the help of its citizens.

~ Brian Joyce

I guess what's most important is that we chose to live with our hearts open and to let our experiences show us the way towards our brightest days.

~ Brian Joyce

Eventually, that feeling fades, but there is always the memory of those days. When you’re young, everything is butterflies. What I mean is—it’s all new. I guess he was telling you to still believe, to hold on to your butterflies.

~ Brian Joyce

Couples swayed and embraced to the beat as the singer's vocals soared above a group of confused teenagers and twenty-something's.

~ Brian Joyce

What were we, but kids with apartments and jobs anyway?

~ Brian Joyce

Christopher was wearing a suit and adorned make-up. As long as I had known him, he never wore a suit or make-up. The look of him defenseless to his appearance saddened me.

~ Brian Joyce

That night, he laid in his bed thinking about all the possibilities. They came like waves in his mind. At first they came slow, then gradually built up speed, cresting into full on dreams, until finally, they broke onto the shore with all of their reality. First dreams, then nightmares.

~ Brian Joyce

Dream-start with dream. Start tonight-become who you want-dream big! He became animated at this point, No money needed for dreams. Dreams are free.

~ Brian Joyce

In times such as these, life often begs us to seek answers when in reality there are only questions available.

~ Brian Joyce

The central question of any execution: do you want the hood on or off? Would you rather see it coming? Or would you rather simply drift away, cocooned in warm darkness, stinking of nothing but yourself? A kind, familiar place to hide in, just before the snap, the crackle? Or the pop?

~ Gemma Files

It’s funny how books can change you. You open up a book and one minute you are who you’ve always been, then you read some random passage and you become someone else.

~ Brian Joyce

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

~ P.d. James

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

~ P.d. James

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

~ John Green

Only the dead, can speak about their world.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The earth is expertly designed to take back what it has created. Bodies left for carrion in enclosed, regulated spaces could be the answer to the environmental problems of burial and cremation. There is no limit to where our engagement with death can take us.

~ Caitlin Doughty

It's only young people who make giant, life-altering decisions based on what other people might think, and it's because they don't see their own death looming. Their fear is, Will my family, friends and lovers admire me? whereas an older person's fear is that vision of themselves lying in a hospital bed, a breathing tube up their nose and the thought running through their heads, Why didn't I at least try to do what I wanted to do, while I had the chance?

~ Patricia V. Davis

Death occurs in unexpected times.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I feel like a little tug in a great storm. But I'm fastened to a great ship on ahead. It's going into port and can't lose its way.

~ Patricia St. John

Each man is master of his own death and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Die in a good way, obviously.

~ Mindy Kaling

character isn’t something you talk about, it’s something you show through your actions—through your every day habits.

~ Brian Joyce

Sullivan had her Crucifix Soldier and now I have mine. No. I am the soldier. Teacup is the cross.

~ Rick Yancey

I will simply die, as you will simply die, when our hearts stop beating. And instead of the fires of Hell or the clouds of Heaven, there will be a chorus of hungry worms or fish, depending on how we go. Isn’t that what really terrifies you most of all, why you force yourself against all reason to believe in such tales? It’s because you’re afraid of the nothingness at the end. You’re ashamed of it.

~ Cliff James

I waited for the Earth to stop spinning, for the rift to open and swallow us. Yet the ash tree remained framed in the window, refused to fall. Rain streaked the glass. Blood throbbed in my ears. Preternatural silence. The cruellest April.I was not deceived. What I saw was samsara, illusion. The world had ended. I was sure of it.

~ John Dolan

After all, Malthus was wrong. Marx was wrong. Democracy did not die during the Great Depression as the Communists predicted. And Khrushchev did not 'bury' us. We buried him. Neville Chute's On the Beach proved as fanciful as Dr. Strangelove and Seven Days in May. Paul Ehrlich's Population Bomb never exploded. It fizzled. The Clash of 79 produced Ronald Reagan and an era of good feelings. The Club of Rome notwithstanding, we did not run out of oil. The world did not end at the close of the second millennium, as some prophesied and others hoped. Who predicted the disappearance of the Soviet Empire? Is it not possible that today's most populous nations -China, India, and Indonesia- could break into pieces as well? Why do predictions of the Death of the West not belong on the same shelf as the predictions of 'nuclear winter' and 'global warming'? Answer: the Death of the West is not a prediction of what is going to happen, it is a depiction of what is happening now. First World nations are dying.

~ Pat Buchanan

They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion.

~ Ambrose Bierce