Death And Dying Quotes

When you look at pictures of people you know are dead, there is something different about the eyes. As if they anticipated their particular fate.It is a visceral recognition. I told myself I was getting too fanciful and went to bed.

~ John D. Macdonald

I don't know what happens after we die. It doesn't seem to me like there can be much past this. But I suppose I can conceive that what we make and do can last beyond us. Maybe in a different place, on another plane.

~ Ally Condie

As mortal humans we are born with a death sentence anyway, so what difference does a little poison make? Why not take a chance you will survive the ordeal and make something significant of your life?... p330

~ Brian Herbert

Ah yes, a great victory, this 'sport'. I am sure El Toro appreciates the applause Jumping in the Puddles of Life

~ Loretta Livingstone

My mother died of colon cancer one week after my eleventh birthday, and that fact has shaped my life. All that I have become and much that I have not become, I trace directly or indirectly to her death. ... In my professional and personal life, I have lived with the awareness of death's imminence for more than half a century, and labored in its constant presence for all but the first decade of that time.

~ Sherwin B. Nuland

He watches the sun out of the world and the stars into it and sometimes I wonder if he watches the sun come up again. Is it hard to sleep when you know you are almost at the end? Do you not want to miss a moment, even those that would otherwise seem dull and unremarkable?

~ Ally Condie

‎The days are hot and the dead lie unburied. We cannot fetch them all in, if we did we should not know what to do with them. The shells will bury them...

~ Enrich M. Remarque

Are you scared?”“Of what?” “Dying.” Jemma was nothing, if she was not blunt.“I’m not expecting to die, Jemma. I’m expecting to have treatment, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, whatever it takes, but I’m expecting to come through this.

~ Calvin Wade

I've been to the other side...You're dead there, too.

~ Courtney Kirchoff

It was during this terrible night that the three wounded died, and the jeeps froze solid.

~ Pat Frank

... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever.

~ David Wong

In the moment I faced dying, I finally knew my reason for living.

~ Brodi Ashton

You cannot conceive of the depths of my sorrow, Campbell Maria Cooper. Alicia brought her fist to her mouth and her other hand to the rail of the bed and took a deep breath before she continued. I will never be the same when you are gone. Things for me will be dim and gray and flat. But there is one thing that will keep me going, Campbell, and that is the belief in my connection to you. This thing. This crazy enmeshed love feeling that I have is real. Like this cup is real. Or this phone is real. And it will not just go away when you do. Okay? Wherever you are going, you will be connected to me by this thing, and you will never, ever be alone, okay? I want you to know that.

~ Wendy Wunder

One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.

~ David Mitchell

There were worse things than dying, and those worse things happened to the people you left behind.

~ P.c. Cast

Our existence comes with Death. And it comes with suffering, death alone is not enough and pleasure have consequences. wicked and fucked. love comes with hurting. And having means losing.

~ Ira N. Barin

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

~ Michel De Montaigne

I went to a foot specialist recently and she said:You've broken a bone, it's healed funny.What can you do?Not much.She strapped me up though and that's the reason my foot is hurting, because the strapping gave me cramp.When I'm about to die I'm going to head ti a swamp so I topple in when the time comes. In 50,000 years when they dig me up, pretty well preserved, the scientists will have to work out what sort of life I led from my bone structure, teeth and whatnot. Maybe I'll be clutching a Felt record or something to give them a clue. They'll look at my foot and say: This man broke a bone and it's healed funny. And they'll look at the Felt record, analysing the grooves with a Groove Analyser and they'll say: He was obviously in an indie band and one day the pressure got too much, and he booted a wall. And they wouldn't be far from the truth, those crazy scientists.

~ Stuart Murdoch

Dying on your own terms, this is the greatest gift anyone can bestow upon a mortal man.

~ Mario Stinger

In my opinion, anyone who says they have no anxiety at all over experiencing their own physical death is not in touch with their humanity.~R. Alan Woods [2012]

~ R. Alan Woods

There came a moment in this journey when I freely realized that the lives most of lead are small. Important, but small. Our radius reaches family, clients, friends for whom we do selfless and amazing feats. But our sphere of influence is local.... So our illnesses/deaths are small, too. Not unimportant. Just local in nature... - 209

~ Robin Romm

There are things far worse than death, for when it comes to us it is final. What lies beyond it is a matter of faith in what we had hope for.

~ R. Alan Woods

He dropped the phone back onto its cradle, began to turn around and felt a sudden ice-cold furrow open up in his side. Strength drained from his legs, and a moment later he sank to his knees. There was warmth now that ran over the initial and persistent cold.Mohammed was confused, and barely noticed the briefcase being removed from his grip. He heard the click of a cell phone opening, and a soft beeping as a number was dialed.'The package is in my possession,' a female voice said, and the phone clicked shut.

~ R.d. Ronald

Everyone wants to be the one to get the mattress pad. ... We can do this. We all love to do. The more we can do, the less we have to sit and stare at trees and think about the transient nature of life. - 131

~ Robin Romm

We die well when we die with purpose fulfilled.~R. Alan Woods [2012]

~ R. Alan Woods

The feeling of death is not as peaceful as they make it sound in movies and books. It was frightening and empty...I never want to feel it again.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed;And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill,And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!

~ George Gordon Byron

You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here...Death ends life, not a relationship.

~ Mitch Albom

Life and death lived inside each other. That's what occured to me. Death was inside all of us, waiting for warmer nights, a compromised system, a beetle, as in the now dying black timber on the mountains.

~ Peter Heller

I remembered screaming then, screaming until my voice stopped.

~ Ivy Devlin

Death was painful, not because people couldn't see their loved ones anymore, but because they couldn't communicate with them anymore.

~ Karen Mcquestion

I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?

~ Jack Kerouac

Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable.

~ Juliet Marillier

I never really wanted to die. But I followed through anyway. The pain in my heart was excruciating, and death was beautiful.

~ Rae Hachton

Prepare to evacuate soul in ten, in nine, eight.Chloe's splashing through the ankle-deep back-up of renal fluid from her failed kidneys.Death will commence in five.Five, four.Around her, a parasitic life spray paints her heart.Four, three.Three, two.Chloe climbs hand-over-hand up the curled lining of her own throat.Death to commence in three, two.Moonlight shines in through the open mout...h.Prepare for the last breath, now.Evacuate.Now.Soul clear of body.Death commences.Now.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one, and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories.

~ Alan Bradley

Excerpt: Paradox – Bound By Blood. The hands on a clock never falter, not for a second. One day ends; and a new begins. If there was one thing on this earth that could be counted on, it was that. Time never paused to mourn the dead. That particular privilege is allotted to the living. It is for the survivor to mourn, bury the dead, and leave the rest to the earth. That is the way of it – the way of death - and the misery it leaves behind.

~ Patti Roberts

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

~ Barbara Kingsolver

[Howard's] eyes were open and very clear. I'd forgotten what a beautiful gray they were--illness and medicine had regularly glazed them over; now they were bright and attentive, and he was watching me, consciously, through long lashes. Lungs, heart may have stopped but the optic nerves were still sending messages to a brain which, those who should know tell us, does not immediately shut down. So we stared at each other at the end... 'Can you hear me?' I asked him. 'I know you can see me.' Although there was no breath for speech, he now had a sort of wry wiseguy from the Bronx expression on his face which said clearly to me who knew all his expressions, 'So this is the big fucking deal everyone goes on about.

~ Gore Vidal

A man dies and his skin loses heat like the sand on a summer evening. It makes you feel like warming him up.

~ Erri De Luca