1,046 Quotes About Death-and-dying

This is the man who will be my grandfather—the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The tenses slur and slide under the pressure of collapsed time.

There are innumerable unanswerable questions that plague humankind. It is permissible to accept the unknown and unknowable as establishing the outer limits of human possibilities. Unanswerable questions – questions with no provable correct answers – describe the boundaries of human existence. All we know for sure is that everything that is alive will die.

The poetry you could write about Rufus helping me out of my grave isn't lost on me.

As we witness the death of departed souls, other people will observe our departure from the world.

It is appointed for man to die once, Live life to the fullness.

I had a very funny and depressing talk with my seventy-four-year-old mother. I decided, she doesn't have a bucket list - she has a kick-the-bucket list.

Understanding how fragile the human experience is, and grasping your inevitable demise, if you allow it, will guide your life decisions and inspire you to a greater existence.

We must make time to reflect on life.Someday this life will be gone.

Easter Contemplations It does not concern meIf this life is all I have.I do not need a resurrectionOr reincarnationOr to live with the gods. It is enough to liveWith you hereIn the days of your presence. When my breathesAre complete,Lay me by your sideIn the dust.As in life, so in death.Let us become oneWith each other again.