Death And Dying Quotes

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

Death and dying provide a meeting-point between the Tibetan Buddhist and modern scientific traditions. I believe both have a great deal to contribute to each other on the level of understanding and of practical benefit.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

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

I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.

Things have a terrible permanence when people die.

Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.

It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.

One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.

Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.

Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable.

My doctor told me that I drastically needed to lose weight. Fear of death and dying motivated meto make many lifestyle changes that led me to eventually shed over 100 pounds.

There are some advantages to being a writer: you do generally get better as you get older. I think I understand things better. When I was a kid, I was kind of guessing at the emotion. Now I'm interested in writing more difficult books, books that confront the facts of life, of death and dying and failure - the majority of life. You write outwardly imaginative books when you're younger. When you're older you apply imagination to internal experience.

Oh death, you can wait; keep your distance.

You don't die in the United States, you underachieve.

Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.

Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying

That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

In the long run we are all dead.

All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

I was like you are. I thought Jesus came and died on the cross. Jesus' being here was about his death and dying on the cross but it really was about him coming to show us how to do it. To show us the Christ-consciousness that he had and that conciousness abides in all of us. That's what I got. That's what I got.

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

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.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Jamie: You know what I figured out today? Landon: What? Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I had for myself. Like this journey never ends. Like you were sent to me because I'm sick. To help me through all this. You're my angel.

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

When you are sorrowful, look again.

Death cannot kill what never dies.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.

You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.