Quotes on Dying Death

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

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.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

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.

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

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

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.

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.

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

But we are not interested in death at all: rather, we escape the facts, we are continuously escaping the facts. Death is there, and every moment we are dying. Death is not something far away, it is here and now: we are dying. But while we are dying we go on being concerned about life. This concern with life, this over concern with life, is just an escape, just a fear. Death is there, deep inside - growing.

Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

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

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.