Death-and-dying Quotes

If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

The wretch, concentred all in self,Living, shall forfeit fair renown,And, doubly dying, shall go dow...

I sat down in a chair by the bed. The house got altogether still again, and I thought he was asleep....

This is the man who will be my grandfather—the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The t...

I understood him. He wanted to die at home. He didn't want to be going someplace all the time for th...

This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds...

As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare ...

What passing bells for these who die as cattle?Only the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stutter...

The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.

Do you believe that you will die? Yes man is mortal I am a man ergo... no that isn't what I mean. I ...

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

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

But who thinks of death in the middle of life?"-Mike RogersEndless Night by Agatha Christie

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirte...

We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prest...

Here now in his triumph where all things falter, Stretched out on the spoils that his own hand sprea...

Your body's dying...pay no attention

On the flight over to Chicago, I thought of a story Mom had once told me from her days as a pediatri...

This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the ga...

Can you not see death as the friend and deliverer? It means stripping off that body which is torment...

Demons never die quietly, and a week ago the storm was a proper demon, sweeping through the Caribbea...

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every...

We never actively remember death,' Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not r...

If this is death, if we are dead or dying or even if we are living and just going to die, then what ...

Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

Prepare to evacuate soul in ten, in nine, eight.Chloe's splashing through the ankle-deep back-up of ...

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

We cry for ourselves, don't we? Not for the dead. The dead are past caring.

Do you think I lie to you?No.But you think I might lie to you about dying.Yes.Okay. I might. But we'...

There ought to be at least as much common sense about living and dying as there is about going to th...

If I could control tomorrow's haze,The darkened shore wouldn't bother me,If I can't control the web ...

He had visited his family the evening before, eaten dinner with Renee and Chris, his grandson, in th...

One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.

It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the nee...

To the wizard death is merely a belief.

I kept a picture of me kissing my dad’s corpse on the forehead in my wallet for years. I’d break it ...

Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage agains...

To confront death, in any guise, is to identify with the victim and face what is unsettling and sobe...

I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze o...

We do not look for reason for logic in the passionate entreaties of those who are sick unto death; w...

They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars,Like petals from a rose,When suddenly across the l...

I wanted to keep looking at her because I wanted to never take my eyes from her, but still I had tol...

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death ...

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

The man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly,surrounded by men filled with hope and maki...

t nightfall, atthe oppressive moment of transition, a storm of carnivorous mosquitoes roseout of the...

My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.

Each man is master of his own death and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die wi...

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

Don't worry," he would say, smiling. "Dying is much more difficult than one imagines.

Be assured that any hurt to your spirit will pass in time. It is the nature of Death to take, but th...

I have walked in Death to the very precipice of the Ninth Gate," Abhorsen said quietly. "I know the ...

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust a...

[Howard's] eyes were open and very clear. I'd forgotten what a beautiful gray they were--illness and...

Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again for ever. ...

Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Not...

Everything I see reminds me that in a few days I shall no longer see it... It's horrible... I shall ...

It was nothing but a hole, a mouth open wide. You could lean over the edge and peer down to see noth...

I felt guilty that I hadn't thought of Kizuki right away, as if I had somehow abandoned him. Back in...

One had heard and read a great deal about death, and even seen a little of it, and knew by heart the...

He would not now conduct little Nell to the coast; he would not convey her by a steamer to Port Said...

She wasted and grew so thin that she no longer was a little girl, but the shadow of a little girl. T...

Between the dark, heavily laden treetops of the spreading chestnut trees could be seen the dark blue...

To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.

Death: When next we meet, the hour will strike for you and your friends.Antonius Block: And will you...

Jöns: But feel, to the very end, the triumph of being alive!

Upon learning that her cancer had spread to her spine, Paula prepared her thirteen year-old son for ...

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is somet...

I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later...

And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to...

Only the rocks live forever, Gray Wolf said.

Many African societies divide humans into three categories: those still alive on the earth, the sash...

Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and wh...

Concha would cry when she found out I was dead, she should have no taste for life for months afterwa...

Death is just one more Path. One you'll come to in time.

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory thatsomeone has left this world, you a...

My father, my father, and dost thou not hearThe words that the Erl-King now breathes in mine ear?'Be...

On my strand, lovely flowers their blossoms unfold,My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold.

When you look at pictures of people you know are dead, there is something different about the eyes. ...

...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for hu...

(I didn’t tell him that thediagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratula...

War didn't scare me. I just didn't want to go all the way-hell over there to fight one. I had a repu...

Chip, she’s gone,” and he said, “I thought I’d feel her looking down on us, but you’re right. She’s ...

To die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier.

There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and ...

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING thing...

That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the...

Curley's wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and the plannings and the dis...

Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.

Perhaps we meet our heaven at the start and not the end of life.

The dead teach this great lesson, which we are loathe to learn: we too will die.

Without warning, David was visited by an exact vision of death: a long hole in the ground, no wider ...

Sometimes Edith came into the room and sat on the bed beside him and they talked. They talked of tri...

She died in my arms saying, “I don’t want to die.” That is what death is like. It doesn’t matter wha...

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

We are so afraid of the idea of having to die… that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as i...

He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagi...