Dying Quotes

I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence.

~ John Keats

It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the best of visions. The world becomes grayer. Entropy beats us down. Everything fades. Everything goes. Everything dies.

~ Robert Silverberg

This is your war now.' I despised myself for the cheesy sentiment, but what else did I have?'Some war,' he said dismissively. 'What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war, Hazel Graze, with a predetermined winner.

~ John Green

Which do you hate more: breaking your word or dying?I don't know. I've never done either.

~ Gerald Morris

Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’slike to be dying, and (b) not have died.

~ John Green

This is how it feels to die: It starts from outside and works its way in.

~ Sarah Wylie

It’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Where have you been? I asked weakly. A few minutes ago I would have rather died than questioned him. Let him know I care. But I'm too sick to be strong, kick ass Rayne at the moment.Vegas he says.I raise an eyebrows. Uh, okay. Win anything? I can't believe he was off gambling as I lay dying. I mean, I know poker is hot and all, but couldn't he have waited a couple of days for that straight flush?I got what I went for, if that's what you mean.What, a lap dance?He chuckes. Even sick, you're still funny, Rayne.

~ Mari Mancusi

When you live with a potentially life-threatening condition you get used to the thought of dying. You accept it, you push on. The thing that scared me was the picture of dying slowly and painfully, the loss of independence and identity to illness.

~ Josh Lanyon

I know there's no heaven. I know it all turns to nothingness. But I fear there will be some remnant of me left within that void. Left conscious by some random fluke. Something that will scream out for this. That one speck of my soul will still exist and be left trapped and wanting. For you. For the light. For anything.

~ Drew Magary

I would not be dying if it were not for her. I would have stayed home, as I have always stayed home, and I would have been safe, and I would have done the one thing I have always wanted to do, which is to grow up.

~ John Green

Dying is beautiful- even the first time around, at the ripe old age of 20. It’s not easy most of the time, but there is real beauty to be found in knowing that your end is going to catch up with you faster than you had expected, and that you have to get all your loving and laughing and crying done as soon as you can.

~ Norma Klein

Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground.

~ Sonya Hartnett

Being dead does have its advantages.”-Alastor

~ Dana Michelle Burnett

Waking up in a room with no natural light does something to a man. no windows. I’m almost afraid to die. I fear my soul won’t make it out.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Mortal, what hast thou of such grave concernThat thou indulgest in too sickly plaints?Why this bemoaning and beweeping death?For if thy life aforetime and behindTo thee was grateful, and not all thy goodWas heaped as in sieve to flow awayAnd perish unavailingly, why not,Even like a banqueter, depart the hall,Laden with life?

~ Titus Lucretius Carus

Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.We decide to go out walking the whole time that you're talking.Convinced that you're living whole time that I'm dying.

~ Tegan Quin

And all the while one spirit uttered this,The other one did weep so, that, for pity,I swooned away as if I had been dying,And fell, even as a dead body falls.

~ Dante Alighieri

I was astonished by his complete lack of self-pity. Morrie, who could no longer dance, swim, bathe, or walk; Morrie, who could no longer answer his own door, dry himself after a shower, or even roll over in bed. How could he be so accepting? I watched him struggle with a fork, picking at a piece of tomato, missing it the first two times - a pathetic scene, and yet I could not deny that sitting in his presence was almost magically serene, the same calm breeze that soothed me back in college.

~ Mitch Albom

I may be dying, but I am surrounded by loving, caring souls. How many people can say that?

~ Mitch Albom

Death twitches my ear. Live he says I am coming.

~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

To die is a debt we must all of us discharge.

~ Euripides

Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.

~ Harry S. Truman

As long as I have a want I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

~ George Bernard Shaw

For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death.

~ John Oxenham

As men we are all equal in the presence of death.

~ Publilius Syrus

At last God caught his eye.

~ Harry Secombe

Death - the last voyage the longest the best.

~ Thomas Wolfe

Death is a delightful hiding-place for weary men.

~ Herodotus

Death is just a distant rumour to the young.

~ Andy Roomy

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

~ Johnny Carson

He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.

~ Edward Young

He that dies pays all debts.

~ William Shakespeare

Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved.

~ Jean Cameron

I believe that the struggle against death the unconditional and self-willed determination to live is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.

~ Hermann Hesse

I care not a man can die but once we owe God a death.

~ William Shakespeare

I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

~ Robert Frost

In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

In Spain the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

~ Fedirico Garcia Lorca

It is a far far better thing that I do than anything I have ever done it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

~ Charles Dickens