Death and Dying Quotes
237 quotations about Death and Dying
The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.
We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.
It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.
It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.
The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.
A useless life is an early death.
Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.
I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.
You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.