Dying Quotes

We are aberrations—beings born undead, neither one thing nor another, or two things at once … uncanny things that have nothing to do with the rest of creation, horrors that poison the world by sowing our madness everywhere we go, glutting daylight and darkness with incorporeal obscenities. From across an immeasurable divide, we brought the supernatural into all that is manifest. Like a faint haze it floats around us. We keep company with ghosts. Their graves are marked in our minds, and they will never be disinterred from the cemeteries of our remembrance. Our heartbeats are numbered, our steps counted. Even as we survive and reproduce, we know ourselves to be dying in a dark corner of infinity. Wherever we go, we know not what expects our arrival but only that it is there.

~ Thomas Ligotti

Love is worth dying for, said the spermatozoid.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Losing someone doesn’t scare me. Death doesn’t scare me. What scares me is the inability to no longer feel the touch of the one you love.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Don’t worry if you don’t accomplish everything in this life. Fortunately, death overcomes every thing—even the very thing that tried to kill us.

~ Kamand Kojouri

The meaning of life is to die living it.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Who knows if you’re alive anymore, but better yet, who knows if I’m even alive anymore?

~ Dominic Riccitello

How can you be afraid to live yet scared to die?

~ Dominic Riccitello

They’re scared of death, but that’s like being afraid of life.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I have died at the ripe age of twenty.Smile, for the world didn't get a chance to disappoint me.I have died at the mature age of ninety.Smile, for my life was more than satisfying.I have died suddenly—out of the blue.Smile, for I didn't have to fall ill before you.I have died from a long illness.Smile, for I had the chance to say goodbye.I did not want to leave this Earth.But smile, for I am still here among you.Why are you crying?Can you not see I am smiling?

~ Kamand Kojouri

When the expected occurred, never panic, by keep calming, you gain control over the situation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Growing up, I always had a soldier mentality. As a kid I wanted to be a soldier, a fighter pilot, a covert agent, professions that require a great deal of bravery and risk and putting oneself in grave danger in order to complete the mission. Even though I did not become all those things, and unless my predisposition, in its youngest years, already had me leaning towards them, the interest that was there still shaped my philosophies. To this day I honor risk and sacrifice for the good of others - my views on life and love are heavily influenced by this.

~ Criss Jami

Live in such a way that when you die you leave God in your will for your children.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Maybe that was why the French called orgasms “las petites morts”: because the things that bring us passion tend to slip past our defenses, to creep insidiously into every facet of our consciousnesses and kill us as ruthlessly, and efficiently, as any drug.

~ Nenia Campbell

Have we ever thought to consider that God allows things in our lives to die so that in that death we might come to the precious realization of how little we’ve actually lived in the first place?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

As for dying, he didn't believe that he was frightened of it: the manner of it, perhaps, but not the fact of it. After all, he had reached an age where dying had started to become an objective reality instead of an abstract concept.

~ John Connolly

The truth is we're all dying, the lie is we're all living.

~ Anthony Liccione

Give me the Black Death over a Victorian prude any day. At least the dying screw like it's their last day on earth.

~ R.e. Vance

Sex doesn't satisfy for a lifetime, the more you have it, the more you want it. And the more you have it, the more you die out.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

We must be conscious of this; one day, the life we have, will be gone.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I have died every day in my mind with disgust for not being able to protect my own children.

~ Pawan Mishra

I know it’s hard when other children are called home but we can find purpose and good in all things when we can see things from the Lord’s perspective. There is goodness to be found and lives are still touched and changed for the good when little ones go home to Heavenly Father. My sister was 7 when she returned to him. Her passing gave me the strength to be who I am today. Every experience we have had in our lives has made us the strong women we are today.The Lord is strengthening those families as they pass through these trials just as He does us.

~ Laura Lane

Ever two seconds, somewhere in the world, a child dies of starvation. That means every two seconds there is a story where the main character dies. That's a lot of horrible stories. So if my death looks like a sad story to someone else, I hope those people will use their imagination to think of all the children who don't get special deaths.

~ Mohiro Kitoh

Can the child who is Dell; be the outer emoodiment of man's quest to save himself? To cure himself?...Or, to be himself?

~ Milkweed L. Augustine

Alecto isn't a person! He's just something that society made and then threw away, a memory that refuses to die.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never say, Die! Paltry, prudent hypocrites!

~ Osamu Dazai

All the whackjob psychologists out there will tell you that grief is a process. Some say it has five stages. Others say that grief should only last two years at the lost, otherwise it's abnormal. Putting an expiration date of grief though is like putting out the flame on a burning candle. It might stop the candle from melting down and falling apart, but in the long run the candle goes solid, freezes in a catatonic state. Take away a person's grief and guaranteed they'll only be a frozen shell of a human being afterwards. Grief is only love, it's nothing to hide or send away with happy pills and mother's little helpers. Grief is a lifeline connecting two people who are in different realms together, and it's a sign of loyalty and hope.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Families that feel together, heal together.

~ Christina G. Hibbert Psy.d.

Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem

~ Paulo Coelho

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

~ Stephen King

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

~ Gloria Steinem

It stands to reason that anyone who learns to live well will die well. The skills are the same: being present in the moment, and humble, and brave, and keeping a sense of humor. (361)

~ Victoria Moran

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

~ Samuel Butler

Its hard to die. Harder to live

~ Dan Simmons

We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths.

~ Chuck Klosterman

With a sigh, he grabbed hold of his chair and lifted himself out of it, then wrote on the blackboard: How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering? - A.Y.'I'm going to leave that up for the rest of the semester,' he said.'Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I don't want us to forget Alaska, and I don't want to forget that even when the material we study seems boring, we're trying to understand how people have answered that question and the questions each of you posed in your papers--how different traditions have come to terms with what Chip, in his final, called 'people's rotten lots in life.

~ John Green

Dying isn’t like living, it requires no effort at all.

~ Ann Aguirre

You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.

~ Jeff Tweedy

You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.

~ Natalie Goldberg

That's what it means to die, to not be able to stop looking at whatever's in front of you. Some darn thing placed directly there, with nothing you can do about it...

~ Philip K. Dick

live to the fullest or die;and die you will anyway, so start living!

~ Christopher S. Hyatt