Death and Dying Quotes
237 quotations about Death and Dying
For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.
That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
These have not the hope to die.
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
I am not the least afraid to die.
To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.
Death doesn't frighten me.
He would make a lovely corpse.
Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.
Dying is a wild night and a new road.
Let us go in; the fog is rising.
When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
To die is landing on some distant shore.
A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.
I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.