1,046 Quotes About Death-and-dying

  • Author Caitlin Doughty
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    He explained that he talks about death "all the time" with his friends. They ask each other, "Hey, what you want when you die?"Luciano asked, "Don't people say that where you come from?"It was hard to explain that, no, for the most part, they really don't.

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He explained that he talks about death "all the time" with his friends. They ask each other, "Hey, what you want when you die?"Luciano asked, "Don't people say that where you come from?"It was hard to explain that, no, for the most part, they really don't.

-Caitlin Doughty

All deaths are sudden, no matter how gradual the dying may be.

-Michael McDowell

  • Author Graham Greene
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    We didn’t want to be reminded of how little we counted, how quickly, simply, and anonymously death came. Even though my reason wanted the state of death, I was afraid like a virgin of the act. I would have liked death to come with due warning, so that I could prepare myself. For what? I didn’t know, nor how, except by taking a look around at the little I would be leaving.

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We didn’t want to be reminded of how little we counted, how quickly, simply, and anonymously death came. Even though my reason wanted the state of death, I was afraid like a virgin of the act. I would have liked death to come with due warning, so that I could prepare myself. For what? I didn’t know, nor how, except by taking a look around at the little I would be leaving.

-Graham Greene

I can feel the daisies growing over me.

-John Keats

  • Author Yevgeny Zamyatin
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    The same joy is in a stone which, thrown aloft, hesitates a little at the height of its flight and then rushes down to the ground. It is the same with a man when in his final convulsion he takes a last deep breath and dies.

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The same joy is in a stone which, thrown aloft, hesitates a little at the height of its flight and then rushes down to the ground. It is the same with a man when in his final convulsion he takes a last deep breath and dies.

-Yevgeny Zamyatin

  • Author Connie Willis
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    The perfect metaphor," he said, "looming up suddenly out of nowhere in the middle of your maiden voyage, unseen until it is nearly upon you, unavoidable even when you try to swerve, unexpected even though there have been warnings all along. [...]

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The perfect metaphor," he said, "looming up suddenly out of nowhere in the middle of your maiden voyage, unseen until it is nearly upon you, unavoidable even when you try to swerve, unexpected even though there have been warnings all along. [...]

-Connie Willis

  • Author Thomas Lynch
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    The living have to live with it. You don’t. Theirs is the grief or the gladness of your death, theirs is the loss or gain of it. Theirs is the pain and the pleasure of memory.

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The living have to live with it. You don’t. Theirs is the grief or the gladness of your death, theirs is the loss or gain of it. Theirs is the pain and the pleasure of memory.

-Thomas Lynch

  • Author Erich Maria Remarque
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    I nod and wonder what to say to encourage him. His lips have fallen away, his mouth has become larger, his teeth stick out and look as though they were made of chalk. The flesh melts, the forehead bulges more prominently, the cheekbones protrude. The skeleton is working itself through. The eyes are already sunken in. In a couple of hours it will be over.

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I nod and wonder what to say to encourage him. His lips have fallen away, his mouth has become larger, his teeth stick out and look as though they were made of chalk. The flesh melts, the forehead bulges more prominently, the cheekbones protrude. The skeleton is working itself through. The eyes are already sunken in. In a couple of hours it will be over.

-Erich Maria Remarque

  • Author NORTON
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    old folks frey, the curb to the housethe smell of illness and lost soulspainted on the walls of washed off paintquirky noises; maybe its settling inits an old house, of generationsBrandy gave me a key; old swine gave upthe ghosts in the alley were broken; flickering lights

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old folks frey, the curb to the housethe smell of illness and lost soulspainted on the walls of washed off paintquirky noises; maybe its settling inits an old house, of generationsBrandy gave me a key; old swine gave upthe ghosts in the alley were broken; flickering lights

-NORTON

 

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