1,222 Quotes About Dying

After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled.

When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.

Neighbours complaining about someone’s dog making an awful racket. You could hardly blame the poor beast, its owner had died in her bed at least a fortnight before and there hadn’t been much left of the old girl worth eating.

When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.

Once a flower is picked it immediately begins to die.

...the dead are objects that have broken, a television, the radio, the mixer, and the best thing is to remember them as they were when they were working, because the only acceptable tomb is memory.

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.

Death is perfectly safe. (55)