1,046 Quotes About Death-and-dying

But dying people don't need to be reminded that they're dying; I feel they need to be reminded that they're still very much alive.

Death is permanent. There’s no coming back if you get off the ferryman’s boat.

Probably everybody be nice to you if they knew you were dying," he said."Everybody knows everybody is dying," I said. "That is why people are nice. You all die soon enough, so why not be nice to each other?

Amid all that blood of the dying sun, the verde was still alive.

Dying may just be the best thing that ever happened to me.

Life and death lived inside each other. That's what occured to me. Death was inside all of us, waiting for warmer nights, a compromised system, a beetle, as in the now dying black timber on the mountains.

None of us are getting out of here alive".

…Maybe death isn’t darkness at all, but so much light wrapping itself around us — as soft as feathers — that we are instantly weary of looking, and looking, and shut our eyes, not without amazement, and let ourselves be carried, as through the translucence of mica to the river that is without the least dapple or shadow — that is nothing but light — scalding, aortal light — in which we are washed and washed out of our bones.“White Owl Flies Into and Out of the Field,” House of Light (1990)

Death's success rate has been 100% so far, yet we still choose to call it a mystery.