1,046 Quotes About Death-and-dying

Sometimes death can be violent, sudden, and unbearably sad. But it’s also reality, and reality doesn’t change just because you don’t like it.

The greatest tribute we can give to the deceased is to keep on living. For when we don’t, we too shall die, before our time.

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

How easy it would be just to let go, to go willingly into all that wonderful energy.

His spirit chaunged house and wente ther,As I cam nevere, I kan nat tellen wher.

I don't know what happens after we die. It doesn't seem to me like there can be much past this. But I suppose I can conceive that what we make and do can last beyond us. Maybe in a different place, on another plane.

If this is death, let it be. If life waits for you just past your eyelids, so be it. But whatever comes your way, you must keep moving forward. Always keep moving forward.

Nature had found the perfect place to hide the yellow fever virus. It seeded itself and grew in the blood, blooming yellow and running red.

Someday, scientists will discover a vaccine, a prophylactic, a cure, and people will talk about ALS the way they talk about polio. Parents will tell their children that people used to get something called ALS, and they died from it. It was a horrible disease that paralyzed its victims. Children will vaguely imagine the horror of it for a moment before skipping along to a sunnier topic, fleetingly grateful for a reality that will never include those three letters.