Quotes on Death And Dying

I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

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.

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

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

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

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