Dying Quotes

What’s it gonna be like, dying? To go to sleep and never, never, never wake up.Well, a lot of things it’s not gonna be like. It’s not going to be like being buried alive. It’s not going to be like being in the darkness forever.I tell you what — it’s going to be as if you never had existed at all. Not only you, but everything else as well. That just there was never anything, there’s no one to regret it — and there’s no problem. Well, think about that for a while — it’s kind of a weird feeling when you really think about it, when you really imagine.[The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are ]

~ Alan W. Watts

He wanted to show her how to live, even after he was gone.

~ Kass Morgan

You take a very handsome guy, or a guy that thinks he's a real hot-shot, and they're always asking you to do them a big favor. Just because they're crazy about themself, they think you're crazy about them, too, and that you're just dying to do them a favor. It's sort of funny, in a way.

~ J.d. Salinger

Queenie Hennessy - I am here to die.Sister Mary Inconnue - Pardon me but you are here to live until you die. There is a significant difference.

~ Rachel Joyce

Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul.

~ D.h. Lawrence

Back then everyone was saying: We're going to die, we're going to die. By the year 2000, there won't be any Belarussians left.

~ Svetlana Alexievich

Dying wasn't so bad, not really. Not when you could go out like this, on a summer's evening with the fireflies winking in the trees. She always thought dying would be a scream into a void, a thrashing, a searing. Not this slow and sleepy drip.

~ Megan Shepherd

To die is to be a counterfeit, for he is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man; but to counterfeit dying when a man thereby liveth is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect image of life indeed.

~ William Shakespeare

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us. Santone, then, cannot be blamed for this cold gray fog that came and kissed the lips of the three thousand, and then delivered them to the cross. That night the tubercles, whose ravages hope holds in check, multiplied. The writhing fingers of the pale mist did not go thence bloodless. Many of the wooers of ozone capitulated with the enemy that night, turning their faces to the wall in that dumb, isolated apathy that so terrifies their watchers. On the red stream of Hemorrhagia a few souls drifted away, leaving behind pathetic heaps, white and chill as the fog itself. Two or three came to view this atmospheric wraith as the ghost of impossible joys, sent to whisper to them of the egregious folly it is to inhale breath into the lungs, only to exhale it again, and these used whatever came handy to their relief, pistols, gas or the beneficent muriate. - A Fog in Santone (1898-1901)

~ O. Henry

When the old men kill themselves, the cities are dying.

~ Robert Ludlum

The bottom line was that he didn't want to die. As far as he was concerned, death was the problem. The basic human problem. Everyone's problem. He wasn't any different from anyone else, but there was no consolation in that.

~ David Guterson

The trouble with dying...is that you don't get to see how everything turns out. You won't know the ending.

~ Anne Tyler

Dying is not dead.

~ George R.r. Martin

To Tiffany's surprise, Nanny Ogg was weeping gently. Nanny took another swig from her flagon and wiped her eyes. 'Cryin' helps sometimes,' she said. 'No shame in tears for them as you've loved. Sometimes I remember one of my husbands and shed a tear or two. The memories're there to be treasured, and it's no good to get morbid-like about it.

~ Terry Pratchett

All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

~ Herman Melville

Moths and flames, mankind and death--there is little difference.

~ Sherwin B. Nuland

Don't worry, I plan on living a long time.Why are you making a bucket list, then?Because if you wait until you're really dying, it's too late.

~ Gayle Forman

Every day we're one day closer to death. But there's no reason to rush into it.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

A silence followed, while the two men contemplated dying for love.

~ Damon Galgut

Certain aspects of dying are still a mystery to me now, but as I grow and study life more, the end of my life becomes more of a certain truth.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

The motionless person was once full of life in one moment in time. What a misery?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A heart? Peppone knows where one is to be met with. There is always someone in the black market in need of dying early.

~ Michelle Franklin

If we knew a person was going to die, we’d hold harder to the memories.

~ Kristin Cashore

What could be more intimate than dying with someone?

~ Sarah Lotz

No matter what the bards may say, there’s no romance in dying for a man.

~ Susanna Kearsley

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I’ve been learning how to die.

~ Kami Garcia

At the last moment she thought, I'm not ready.But she already knew the answer to that.Nobody was ever ready.

~ L.j. Smith

What is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

~ Kahlil Gibran

But if love had to die, I wanted it to die quickly. It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.

~ Graham Greene

At eighty-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a few slender threads that could break painlessly with a simple change of position while he slept, and if he did all he could to keep those threads intact, it was because of his terror of not finding God in the darkness of death.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Death is known only through dying and truth is known only through diving deep within oneself.

~ Maitreya Rudrabhayananda

But everyone knows someone who has died, I said. Why is it so hard to think about dying?'Because,' Morrie continued, 'most of us walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.'And facing death changes all that?'Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials. When you realize you are going to die, you see everything much differently.'He sighed. 'Learn how to die, and you learn how to live.

~ Mitch Albom

Like a firework, a person’s life flashed brightest right before expiration.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

A line that reads, 'Died gallantly' would tell a truer story, often, if it read, 'Died screaming'; and instead of the total number of troops who 'sacrificed' their lives, we might simply chisel onto a block of marble the number of limbs left on the battlefield or in hospitals, the number of body parts unaccounted for, missing in action. Such a memorial would be unthinkable, of course, and I must confess that even I would find it tasteless. But if you want the truth about war, you have to start and end with the screaming.

~ Craig Juresevic

But while the thought of being dead seemed appealing, the actual act of dying did not.

~ Leslye Walton

Everything had life to me,’ he heard Enkidu murmur, ‘the sky, the storm, the earth, water, wandering, the moon and its three children, salt, even my hand had life. It’s gone. It’s gone.

~ Herbert Mason

...the existential paradox we all experience; we feel that we are immortal, yet we know that we will die.

~ Calvin Trillin

So cold your tears freeze against your cheeks.'It's not my fault,' I told Bear. 'I don't make the weather. You got a beef, take it up with God.' That's what I've been doing a lot lately: taking it up with

~ Rick Yancey

One of the difficult things about growing older is that you start losing so many friends. On the other hand, the older you get, the less time you have to wait until you see them again.

~ Ron Brackin

I hope I leave this world gracefully, like a pilgrim slips from the back of his donkey at the end of a long ride, like a traveler disembarks from an airplane that has carried him across a great ocean.

~ Kim Wright