1,222 Quotes About Dying

I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never say, "Die!" Paltry, prudent hypocrites!

I am born as the sun,But then turn into the moon,As my blonde hairs turnGrayish-white and fall toThe ground,Only to be buried again,Then to be born again,Into a thousand sunsAnd a thousand moons.HYMN OF THE DIVINE DANDELION by Suzy KassemCopyright 1993-1994 - A SPRING FOR WISDOM

If we have lost the knack of living, I thought, it is a safe bet to presume we have forfeited the magic of dying.

No matter what the bards may say, there’s no romance in dying for a man.

I tell a friend that I hope for Mother's death, and he is shocked; he sees it as a failure in my love toward her. Perhaps it is. I don't know.

Our life is composed of events and states of mind. How ewe appraise our life from our deathbed will be predicated not only on what came to us in life but how we lived with it. It will not be simply illness or health, riches or poverty, good luck or bad, which ultimately define whether we believe we have had a good life or not, but the quality of our relationship to these situations: the attitudes of our states of mind. (34)

Death is not the end death can never be the end. Death is the road. Life is the traveller. The Soul is the Guide

Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. (“Death Ship”)

To confront death every day, to see it yourself, you have to love the living.