Quotes on Dying Death

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

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

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.

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.

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.