1,046 Quotes About Death-and-dying

The wind and light on rock top hill and his voice and the rest, all the rest. All the days and lights and winds and years that would have been and that would not be. That should be and were not because he was dead. Shot dead on the road in the wind at 21. His mountains unclimbed, never to be climbed.

Dying is a universe of its own. 

The essence of death is discovered in the gap between one moment ceasing and another one beginning. That essence is the wakefulness that is our true nature.

A person who accepts that they are condemned to death and who holds no belief in a god created afterlife is a realist.

The whirlwind of life. Spinning so quickly you can loose sight.But hold tight. In a blink of an eye, time swallows light.

I’m curious about why there’s so much honor given to death, when there is no honor in losing someone you love.

He thought of Robb, with snowflakes melting in his hair. Kill the boy and let the man be born. He thought of Bran, clambering up a tower wall, agile as a monkey. Of Rickon's breathless laughter. Of Sansa, brushing out Lady's coat and singing to herself. You know nothing, Jon Snow. He thought of Arya, her hair as tangled as a bird's nest.

As I witness the dead of beloved ones, it makes be become more conscious that life indeed has an end.

A carpenter is hired- a roof repaired, a porch built. Everything that can be fixed. June, July, August. Everyday we hear their laughter. I think of the painting by van Gogh, the man in the chair. Everything wrong, and nowhere to go. His hands over his eyes.