Death And Dying Quotes

... 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.

There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer.

You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

Knowing about reincarnation helps us relax. It assists us with an understanding of death and dying. Death is not an end, quite the contrary.

You have to learn to do everything, even to die.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa-- blessing it rather than in love with it.

And the camel driver had said, to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.

The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go downTo the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.

It was a good day to die.I was in love. The house was clean

The man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly, surrounded by men filled with hope and making solmn vows, thus one should learn to die.Friedrich Nietzsche - thus spoke zarathustra.

More are men's ends marked than their lives before.The setting sun, the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than things long past.

To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...

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

Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75.

I’m curious about why there’s so much honor given to death, when there is no honor in losing someone you love.

I don't want to die. I want to live. I want to live long enough so I can really live.

I kept a picture of me kissing my dad’s corpse on the forehead in my wallet for years. I’d break it out any time someone showed me a baby picture, just so they would know how it ends.

How easy it would be just to let go, to go willingly into all that wonderful energy.

[G]ive him this much: death didn't just walk up and inhale him. He wasn't exactly whisked away. He left claw marks on his life.

Dying is something else. Dying is different to good and bad.

What is death if not these words that I say

I couldn't imagine her leaving this world without ripping its fabric.

Just when we stopped wanting to kill ourselves, we started to die.

Jest when we stopped wanting to kill ourselves, we started to die.

As Ossie Jones crept out of his body and into the mist, his heart murmured till it was silent.

‎"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...

It was good that she remembered him, though it was exhausting to do so.No rest for the weary. Or the dying. Or the dead.

You’ll live for as long as you live, and once you stop living, you don’t have to worry about staying alive any more because you’ll be dead.

I discovered the bleeding when he licked my hand and left a swath of blood behind, death's autograph.

Posthumous: It sounds like the name of a Roman gladiator, an unconquered gladiator. At least that’s what poor Posthumous would like to believe. It gives him courage.

There is a thin line that separates life from death, but once it's crossed, it becomes as large as an ocean, and so treacherous that it’s impossible to cross back.

Strange, how death had a way of turning a table upside down in an instant. It swept away all the dust that covered treasures, blew the fog from one’s view, knockedaway facades.

I've been ready to die since before you was Born!

None of us are getting out of here alive".

Are you afraid to die?'Cause it scares the hell outta me, And the end is all I can see, And it scares the hell outta me, That the end is all I can see.

The reason dying is so easy is because death has no meaning... And the reason death has no meaning is because life has no meaning. All the same, have fun!

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

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

Life is stressful, dear. That's why they say "rest in peace.

This was how the world ended. Not with a bang, but with a whimper.

How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

We are so afraid of the idea of having to die… that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn…

Time, " the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death

I sit with my knees pulled in tight and my arms wrapped around my shins. I can no longer feel my feet, as if blood refuses to spread so far from my heart.

Where were the scientific pamphlets that taught a woman how to listen to herself die?

I met death for the last time realizing that he, the creature I called, it because I did not want to believe came for me... Collecting.

The sky is but a looking glass into a pool of airless oceans, cast off into a dance of light and energy, leaving only a facet of guidance to navigate. Such an existence lays but within the mind man.