Dying Quotes

Death didn't happen like I expected it to. There was no Grim Reaper, no chorus of angels, no army of demons. And my life didn't flash before my eyes. Death was the color of softness, a delicate green under a thin film of baby powder. There was nothing but soft random thoughts and picture, drifting through me like a child's breath blowing through a dandelion after making a wish. And as I died, I was held by my love. I wanted to soak up her love and smuggle it with me to wherever my soul was headed.-character Ron (Broken)

~ J. Matthew Nespoli

Dying was misery. Death was that period at the end of the sentence.

~ Holly Hood

If (or rather when) you move to death, you’ll learn its language through the educational process known as total immersion. (7)

~ Sandra M. Gilbert

A paradigm shift of viewing palliative care or hospice as a gift instead of seeing it as giving up has the potential to change the way we experience advanced age.

~ Lisa J. Shultz

But dying people don't need to be reminded that they're dying, I feel they need to be reminded that they're still very much alive.

~ Nicole Curtis

Death is permanent. There’s no coming back if you get off the ferryman’s boat.

~ Martha Sweeney

An African who loses the ability to die with dignity is a lost man.

~ Henning Mankell

Top question of the dying: What made me sick?

~ Steven Magee

Amid all that blood of the dying sun, the verde was still alive.

~ Alaya Dawn Johnson

Dying may just be the best thing that ever happened to me.

~ J. Lincoln Fenn

Achala, worrying and scheming about your next life, before you have even completed this one, is not a good practice. Rinpoche

~ Daniel Prokop

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

If we fought wars with laughter instead of bullets, you would die laughing instead of just dying.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Going insane would be worse than dying. At least death is clear and final

~ Rita Stradling

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.

~ Ray Bradbury

We just did an awesome job of not dying.

~ John Green

I don't really care. I shouldn't have to care. I shouldn't have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.

~ Gayle Forman

When you stop growing you start dying.

~ William S. Burroughs

That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.

~ Ray Bradbury

DON'T YOU DARE DIE ON ME, JEZEBEL! DON'T YOU DARE! Or I'll follow you to the next world and KILL you.

~ L.j. Smith

Naruto: I bet you're dying to know my name!Gaara: I couldn't care less.

~ Masashi Kishimoto

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

~ Lemony Snicket

if they hadn’t both been pretending, but had had what is called a heart-to-heart talk, that is, simply told each other just what they were thinking and feeling, then they would just have looked into each other’s eyes, and Constantine would only have said: ‘You’re dying, dying, dying!’ – while Nicholas would simply have replied: ‘I know I’m dying, but I’m afraid, afraid, afraid!’ That’s all they would have said if they’d been talking straight from the heart. But it was impossible to live that way, so Levin tried to do what he’d been trying to do all his life without being able to, what a great many people could do so well, as he observed, and without which life was impossible: he tried to say something different from what he thought, and he always felt it came out false, that his brother caught him out and was irritated by it.

~ Leo Tolstoy

How ironic, she thought, as she fell to her certain death, that at that moment she would have given anything to be a giant goose again.

~ Michael Buckley

Listen to me, Jez. There's no reason for you to die-Wood...poison.No it isn't! Not to humans. And you're half human. You're vampire enough to survie something that would kill a human, but you're human enough not to be poisoned by wood.

~ L.j. Smith

Death straps me to the hospital bed, claws its way onto my chest and sits there.I didn't know it would hurt this much. I didn't know that everything good that's ever happened in my life would be emptied out by it.

~ Jenny Downham

It's taken years for me to understand that dying doesn't end the story; it transforms it. Edits, rewrites, the blur, aand epiphany of one-way dialogue. Most of us wander in and out of one another's lives until not death, but distance, does us part-- time and space and heart's weariness are the blander executioners or human connection.

~ Gail Caldwell

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Here, when I say I never want to be without you,somewhere else I am sayingI never want to be without you again. And when I touch youin each of the places we meet,in all of the lives we are, it's with hands that are dyingand resurrected.When I don't touch you it's a mistake in any life,in each place and forever

~ Bob Hicok

when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.

~ Sogyal Rinpoche

And all the winds go sighing, For sweet things dying

~ Christina Rossetti

Yeah.You got me through

~ Alyxandra Harvey

Silver’s sweet and gold’s our mother, but once you’re dead they’re worth less than that last shit you take as you lie dying.

~ George R.r. Martin

Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.

~ Suzanne Collins

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

~ Terence Mckenna

If it had been a heart attack, the new

~ Nick Flynn

How ironic it would be, to die at his hands while trying to save him, when he first came to me because he was trying to save me.

~ Beth Revis

He's lost his colour very far from here,Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry

~ Wilfred Owen

Why did it take the threat of dying to truly notice how exquisite a sunrise or sunset could be?

~ Suzanne Woods Fisher