49 Quotes About Deathbed

...nothing more excruciating when you are fighting for your life than to have healthy people round you, squabbling over futilities. Who do you love best, and who most do you want with you? Blithering idiots: it's life itself, can't you see? It's life I love best, and life I want with me. Go hang yourselves, all of you, you're only sapping my strength when most I need it. Leave me in peace and let me grapple.

Almost universally, when people look back on their lives while on their deathbed [...] they wish they had spent more time with the people and activities they truly loved and less time worrying about aspects of life that, upon deeper examination, really don't matter at all that much. Imagining yourself at your own funeral allows you to look back at your life while you still have the chance to make some important changes.

When you lose someone untimely; all left is never ending guilt, fear, and pain.

I fear death. I think I must learn to romanticize death so that I can cope with its brutal irreversible numbness...!

Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying?" (Seeing all her children assembled at her bedside in her last illness.)

It was human nature. You didn't give everything away; if you did, you would have nothing left.There were those who took the view that there was a liberation in the act of confession, but mostly they tended to be the ones who were listening, and not the ones confessing. The only full confessions occur on deathbeds; all others are partial, modified.

The stony silence of death, trapped by the original gravity of our sins,and the perpetuity of a long, leisurely yawn, a world where blood and bone no longer matter.

It's weird, all you think about when you're young is gaining your independence, but when those final hours come, people want to go home.

Obitus vitae otium est (Death is life's rest).