1,046 Quotes About Death-and-dying

They have been promised rescue, redemption and eternal life in paradise! They expected to be taken care of by Jehovah and his organization forever. How terrifying it must have been to be old and frail and have to confront not only profound disappointment but also the realities of life they believed they would not have to confront: death, aloneness, responsibility and meaningless.

He had defended himself against death from without, and then it had carried him off from within.

The three of them were the ultimate warriors we all looked up to.Until the day it all came crashing down.That was the day our heroes died. That was the day a new hero was born.

That's why all humans are so afraid to die. Nobody wants to think they don't matter.

A man's perspective is limited by the brevity of his existence. Even living deliberately, how far up can he reach? Standing on his minuscule patch of time, how far into the future can he see? How much of the past can one person truly understand?

I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?

A person’s life is a glint and oftentimes the climax is incalculably brutal.

If not his life, Rustom Iraqiwalla wanted his death to be worth something.

It was a fact that had become the focus of my entire life, a whisper in my heartbeat, a permanent, insidious presence that punctuated my every breath. I couldn’t escape it, that persistent voice, lingering in the blood pulsing through my veins. It said only one thing, over and over, a repetition of inescapable anguish, the knowledge of a thing that could never be undone.James is dead. James is dead. James is dead. James is dead.