1,222 Quotes About Dying

And sometimes we die to prove that we lived.

You did something once — you know it. O Ralph, you've been everything! What have I done for you — what can I do to-day? I would die if you could live. But I don't wish you to live; I would die myself, not to lose you." Her voice was as broken as his own and full of tears and anguish."You won't lose me — you'll keep me. Keep me in your heart; I shall be nearer to you than I've ever been.

She wished to say everything; she was afraid he might die before she had done so.

O death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest. Let pass my weary guilty ghost out of my careful breast.

How long is this posthumous life of mine to last?

We either die or live for something. And between those two there is only love.

He said being dead was a little like living, only longer.

In the distance, Amanda heard the sirens. Just a little bit longer. She didn't know what was wrong with her, but she was scared of dying before she had the chance to tell Ryker goodbye. In their capable hands, though, surely they could keep her alive long enough for him to return. They had to.

The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead. I have watched others since I watched my father, and always with the sense of their strangeness. They sit and speak, and are spoken to, and listen, and even smile, but in spirit they have already moved away from us and there is no way we can enter their shadowy no-man's-land.