Quotes on Death And Dying

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

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

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

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.

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

Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love

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.

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.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.

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.