1,046 Quotes About Death-and-dying

Él no se mató, no. Murió como..., como todo el mundo un día muere.

I am waltzing with death, flirting with him, but he stands there smiling and saying nothing because he does not need to woo or be wooed: he knows he gets us all in the end.

You never would get through to the end of being a father, no matter where you stored your mind or how many steps in the series you followed. Not even if you died. Alive or dead a thousand miles distant, you were always going to be on the hook for work that was neither a procedure nor a series of steps but, rather, something that demanded your full, constant attention without necessarily calling you to do, perform, or say anything at all.

In life you can't move forward looking back

Why do we as humans always tend to remember the worse things about people? We may know someone for many years, know them as vibrant and healthy, yet when they fall ill and pass away, we can only picture them at their sickest, as though they were born and lived their whole lives wearing a death mask.

I am here to create greatness, not in living legacy, but memories for thereafter...and then I must go.

Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit.

The best gift your true friends will ever give you is carry your casket with respect. So be good to those you consider exceptional.

I wonder if my first breath was as soul-stirring to my mother as her last breath was to me