Quotes on Death And Dying

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

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.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.

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.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

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

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.