Quotes on Someone Who Is Dying

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.

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

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.

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

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

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.

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

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

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.