1,046 Quotes About Death-and-dying

We live in an external world that is constantly undergoing alteration. Like every splendid and delicate aspect of nature, we are all fated to crumble and fall akin to the magenta leaves of autumn foliage. Until we die, we act as the architect of our diversified internal world. Our dreams and desires can lull us or inspire us.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change

That’s when I realized that certain moments go on forever. Even after they’re over they still go on, even after you're dead and buried, those moments are lasting still, backward and forward, on into infinity. They are everything and everywhere all at once.

Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.

There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.

I am not ready to die,But I am learning to trust deathAs I have trusted life.I am movingToward a new freedom

There was no hope in death, only an end.