“A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/death?page=36
Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'
Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.
I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.
I'm gonna live till I die.
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
In the long run we are all dead.
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.
Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
We die only once, and for such a long time.
There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
You'll have time to rest when you're dead.
If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
Everything that gets born dies.
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.
Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
― Herbert Hoover
― Herbert Hoover
“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems
“My dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.
Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.
For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
~ Falsely yours”
― Charles Bukowski
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.
Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.
For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
~ Falsely yours”
― Charles Bukowski
“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
― Mahatma Gandhi
“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories
“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.”
― Benjamin Franklin
― Benjamin Franklin
tags: death
“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
― Ernest Hemingway
― Ernest Hemingway
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
― Thomas Campbell
― Thomas Campbell
“The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.”
― James Patterson, The Angel Experiment
― James Patterson, The Angel Experiment
“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
― Roberto Bolaño
― Roberto Bolaño
“No one here gets out alive.”
― Jim Morrison
― Jim Morrison
“It's better to burn out than to fade away.”
― Neil Young
― Neil Young
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
― Isaac Asimov
― Isaac Asimov
“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
“Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
“In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
“No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.”
― Rob Sheffield, Love is a Mix Tape
― Rob Sheffield, Love is a Mix Tape
“I was waiting for the longest time, she said. I thought you forgot.
It is hard to forget, I said, when there is such an empty space when you are gone.”
― Brian Andreas, Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas
It is hard to forget, I said, when there is such an empty space when you are gone.”
― Brian Andreas, Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas
“Life is too short when you think of the length of death”
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
“What do you most value in your friends?
Their continued existence.”
“So wise so young, they say, do never live long.”
“Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”
― George Gordon Byron
― George Gordon Byron
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
― Joseph Stalin
― Joseph Stalin
“People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind. If that's what dying is like, I wouldn't mind that at all.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
“I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.”
― Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It
― Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It
“I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.”
― Charles Bukowski
― Charles Bukowski
“Dying should come easy:
like a freight train you
don't hear when
your back is
turned.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems
like a freight train you
don't hear when
your back is
turned.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems
“Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.”
― Jo Nesbø
― Jo Nesbø
“I held her close for only a short time, but after she was gone, I'd see her smile on the face of a perfect stranger and I knew she would be there with me all the rest of my days.”
― Brian Andreas, Strange Dreams: Collected Stories and Drawings: 4
― Brian Andreas, Strange Dreams: Collected Stories and Drawings: 4
“Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other---and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World
“Live or die, but don't poison everything.”
― Anne Sexton
― Anne Sexton
“Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat
“There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death.”
― Frances Ann Lebowitz
― Frances Ann Lebowitz
tags: death, inner-peace
“Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself. ”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
From an Irish headstone”
― Richard Puz, The Carolinian
From an Irish headstone”
― Richard Puz, The Carolinian
“You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
“You only get one life. Live it to the fullest. All your miseries will be forgiven when you will be dead.”
― Santosh Kalwar
― Santosh Kalwar
“You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
“What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise
― Don DeLillo, White Noise
“The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.”
― Leo Babauta
― Leo Babauta
“Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything
“There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.”
― T.S. Eliot
― T.S. Eliot
“Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother
“You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
“YOU FEAR TO DIE?
"It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break...”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
"It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break...”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
“I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they’re cramming for their final exam.”
― George Carlin
― George Carlin
“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
― Horace Mann
― Horace Mann
“Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something last longer than we do.”
― Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
― Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
“I went down to the river,
I set down on the bank.
I tried to think but couldn't,
So I jumped in and sank.”
― Langston Hughes
I set down on the bank.
I tried to think but couldn't,
So I jumped in and sank.”
― Langston Hughes
“Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours
“I breathe onto a mirror just to make sure I’m still alive, and to see how good looking my breath is.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
“I’ve been doing this a long time, and I’ve come to learn that predictions don’t mean much. Too much lies outside the realm of medical knowledge. A lot of what happens next comes down to you and your specific genetics, your attitude. No, there’s nothing we can do to stop the inevitable, but that’s not the point. The point is that you should try to make the most of the time you have left.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
“...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a fire you've tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind.... That's why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going.”
― Kevin Brockmeier, The View from the Seventh Layer
― Kevin Brockmeier, The View from the Seventh Layer
“But she's wrong about hell. You don't have to wait until you're dead to get there.”
― Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It
― Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It
“Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.”
― Isabel Allende
― Isabel Allende
“One day I’ll have my appointment with death, and every day I call out to God to see if I can reschedule for a later date.
”
“We're reaching for death
on the end of a candle
We're trying for something
that's already found us”
“He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.'
I lean over. My hair smothers him.
'Then you should never have been born,' I say.”
“We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.”
“People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies.”
“Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.”
“Usually time alters and affects everything, but when someone you love dies time cannot change that, no amount of time will ever change that, so time stops having any meaning.”
“Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet.”
“I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.”
“Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it." - Daemon”
“There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another.”
“I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.”
“Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come”
“Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.”
“We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil. Serenity is contagious. If we smile at someone, he or she will smile back. And a smile costs nothing. We should plague everyone with joy. If we are to die in a minute, why not die happily, laughing? (136-137)”
“Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
“If it means my death, I don't care, because even death will be a sort of freedom.”
― Catherine Fisher, Incarceron
― Catherine Fisher, Incarceron
“Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die, and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us. There is a most busy and important round of eating, drinking, dressing, walking, visiting, buying, selling, talking, reading, and all that makes up what is commonly called living, yet to be gone through…”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
“Something has spoken to me in the night...and told me that I shall die, I know not where. Saying: "[Death is] to lose the earth you know for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again
“Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.”
― Tennessee Williams
― Tennessee Williams
“Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable. ”
― Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels
― Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels
“With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
“If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.”
― Dean Smith
― Dean Smith
“If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.”
― Dean Smith
― Dean Smith
“Tell me what it is like to die," I answered.
He dismounted from his horse, looking at me strangely the whole while. "You experience something similar every day," he said softly. "It is as familiar to you as bread and butter."
"Yes," I said. "It is like every night when I fall asleep."
"No. It is like every morning when you wake up.”
― Martine Leavitt, Keturah and Lord Death
He dismounted from his horse, looking at me strangely the whole while. "You experience something similar every day," he said softly. "It is as familiar to you as bread and butter."
"Yes," I said. "It is like every night when I fall asleep."
"No. It is like every morning when you wake up.”
― Martine Leavitt, Keturah and Lord Death
“To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.”
― Cicero
― Cicero
“Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave. ”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.”
― Mother Jones
― Mother Jones
“With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything...”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog
― Saul Bellow, Herzog
“Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
“When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us,as it should.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
“If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.”
― Pythagoras
― Pythagoras
“Everyone you have ever loved in your life becomes a part of your soul. They never leave. They're always inside you, and you can bring them out whenever you want.”
― Nate Kenyon, Sparrow Rock
― Nate Kenyon, Sparrow Rock
“No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen
“Maybe the only good thing about death is that you never have to relive it. You never have to remember the pain.”
― Pittacus Lore, The Fallen Legacies
― Pittacus Lore, The Fallen Legacies
“I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days.”
― Victoria Hanley, The Seer and the Sword
― Victoria Hanley, The Seer and the Sword
“Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.”
― R.D. Laing
― R.D. Laing
“Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live”
― Charles Caleb Colton
― Charles Caleb Colton
“No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.”
― Samuel Beckett
― Samuel Beckett
“Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?"
"I guess it depends on how you die.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
"I guess it depends on how you die.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before. ”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.”
― Twyla Tharp
― Twyla Tharp
“Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.”
“End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.”
“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.”
― Socrates
“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. It's like boats. You keep your motor on so you can steer with the current. And when you hear the sound of the waterfall coming nearer and nearer, tidy up the boat, put on your best tie and hat, and smoke a cigar right up till the moment you go over. That's a triumph.”
“The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is.”
“Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise.”
“We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents...Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies.”
“Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not.”
“We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.”
― Stephen King, Danse Macabre
― Stephen King, Danse Macabre
“You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.”
― Neale Donald Walsch, Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends
― Neale Donald Walsch, Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends
“Grief reunites you with what you've lost. It's a merging; you go with the loved thing or person that's going away. You follow it a far as you can go.
But finally,the grief goes away and you phase back into the world. Without him.
And you can accept that. What the hell choice is there? You cry, you continue to cry, because you don't ever completely come back from where you went with him -- a fragment broken off your pulsing, pumping heart is there still. A cut that never heals.
And if, when it happens to you over and over again in life, too much of your heart does finally go away, then you can't feel grief any more. And then you yourself are ready to die. You'll walk up the inclined ladder and someone else will remain behind grieving for you.”
― Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
But finally,the grief goes away and you phase back into the world. Without him.
And you can accept that. What the hell choice is there? You cry, you continue to cry, because you don't ever completely come back from where you went with him -- a fragment broken off your pulsing, pumping heart is there still. A cut that never heals.
And if, when it happens to you over and over again in life, too much of your heart does finally go away, then you can't feel grief any more. And then you yourself are ready to die. You'll walk up the inclined ladder and someone else will remain behind grieving for you.”
― Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
“I find myself thinking back to something I saw on the local news about a year ago. A teen football player had died in a car accident. The cameras showed all his friends after the funeral—these big hulking guys, all in tears, saying, “I loved him. We all loved him so much.” I started crying, too, and I wondered if these guys had told the football player they loved him while he was alive, or whether it was only with death that this strange word, love, could be used. I vowed then and there that I would never hesitate to speak up to the people I loved. They deserved to know they gave meaning to my life. They deserved to know I thought the world of them.”
― David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy
― David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy
“You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
“Time was the most precious thing in the world to me, and I’d just given her all of it. Because I was falling for her. Because I cared for her. Because I wanted to give her something to remember me by, even if it would eventually fade like its namesake. Time… what an absolute horror-inducing word”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Ruin
― Rachel Van Dyken, Ruin
“I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more...”
― Maurice Sendak
― Maurice Sendak
“But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today. The wind will be soft and mellow and your hilltop will tremble. As you reach the end of your dance you will look at the sun, for you will never see it again in waking or in dreaming, and then your death will point to the south. To the vastness.”
― Carlos Castaneda, Journey to Ixtlan
― Carlos Castaneda, Journey to Ixtlan
“Zalos: 'The world is full of massive things in motion. Little creatures get hurt.”
― Robert Fanney, The War of Mists
― Robert Fanney, The War of Mists
“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.”
― François La Rochefoucauld
― François La Rochefoucauld
“There is life, and there is death, and in between there is me. Please don’t wake me up.
”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
“Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed
“When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.”
― Clarence Darrow, The Essential Words and Writings of Clarence Darrow
― Clarence Darrow, The Essential Words and Writings of Clarence Darrow
“Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
“Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am in a thousand winds that blow,
I am the softly falling snow.
I am the gentle showers of rain,
I am the fields of ripening grain.
I am in the morning hush,
I am in the graceful rush
Of beautiful birds in circling flight,
I am the starshine of the night.
I am in the flowers that bloom,
I am in a quiet room.
I am in the birds that sing,
I am in each lovely thing.
Do not stand at my grave bereft
I am not there. I have not left.”
― Mary Elizabeth Frye
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am in a thousand winds that blow,
I am the softly falling snow.
I am the gentle showers of rain,
I am the fields of ripening grain.
I am in the morning hush,
I am in the graceful rush
Of beautiful birds in circling flight,
I am the starshine of the night.
I am in the flowers that bloom,
I am in a quiet room.
I am in the birds that sing,
I am in each lovely thing.
Do not stand at my grave bereft
I am not there. I have not left.”
― Mary Elizabeth Frye
“There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.”
― Stephen King, Lisey's Story
― Stephen King, Lisey's Story
“One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.”
― Jimmy Buffett, A Pirate Looks at Fifty
― Jimmy Buffett, A Pirate Looks at Fifty
“We only live once. We all have an expiration date after that we will never come again. I am not saying that to make you sad. I am saying that so you can cherish each moment in your life and be grateful that you are here and you are Special”
― Pablo
― Pablo
“to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Life is a bitter sweet journey my friend, a bitter sweet journey.”
― Luellen Hoffman
― Luellen Hoffman
“There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.”
― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
“Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
“As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling.”
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“I was giving up. I would have given up - if a voice hadn't made itself heard in my heart. The voice said "I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare. I will beat the odds, as great as they are. I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I will turn miracle into routine. The amazing will be seen everyday. I will put in all the hard work necessary. Yes, so long as God is with me, I will not die. Amen.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
“There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.”
― David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
― David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, In a Lonely Place
― Dorothy B. Hughes, In a Lonely Place
“Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
― Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
“Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.”
― Sophocles, Electra
― Sophocles, Electra
“I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
“I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
“After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.”
― Mario Benedetti
― Mario Benedetti
“The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?”
― Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
― Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
“I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
“It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to cry and light candles and tell you that you’re not alone.”
― Kristina McMorris, Letters From Home
― Kristina McMorris, Letters From Home
“God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
“We see a hearse; we think sorrow. We see a grave; we think despair. We hear of a death; we think of a loss. Not so in heaven. When heaven sees a breathless body, it sees the vacated cocoon & the liberated butterfly.”
― Max Lucado, Max on Life: Answers and Insights to Your Most Important Questions
― Max Lucado, Max on Life: Answers and Insights to Your Most Important Questions
“And death doesn't wait for you when your rested and ready. It sneaks up on you when your exhausted and hungry and cold and so scared you can't even see straight”
― Lili St. Crow, Betrayals
― Lili St. Crow, Betrayals
“If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.”
― Terry Pratchett
― Terry Pratchett
“Death isn't peaceful; it is just nothing. Everything is gone. No more sunrises, no more hopes, no more fears. Nothing.”
― Linda Howard, Kill and Tell
― Linda Howard, Kill and Tell
“Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.”
― Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
― Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
“How terrible," said Eragon, "to die alone, separate even from the one who is closest to you."
Everyone dies alone, Eragon. Whether you are a king on a battlefield or a lowly peasant lying in bed among your family, no one can accompany you into the void.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest
Everyone dies alone, Eragon. Whether you are a king on a battlefield or a lowly peasant lying in bed among your family, no one can accompany you into the void.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest
“She had always found villains more exciting than heroes. They had ambition, passion. They made the stories happen. Villains didn't fear death. No, they wrapped themselves in death like suits of armor! As she inhaled the school's graveyard smell, Agatha felt her blood rush. For like all villains, death didn't scare her. It made her feel alive.”
― Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil
― Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil
“Death? Why all this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition to life, not an evil.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.”
― José Saramago
― José Saramago
“Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?'
What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise
What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise
“I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment'.”
― Andy Warhol
― Andy Warhol
“I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass; but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
“For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
“It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.”
― Forrest Carter, The Outlaw Josey Wales
― Forrest Carter, The Outlaw Josey Wales
“Our lives are mere flashes of light in an infinitely empty universe. In 12 years of education the most important lesson I have learned is that what we see as “normal” living is truly a travesty of our potential. In a society so governed by superficiality, appearances, and petty economics, dreams are more real than anything anything in the “real world”. Refuse normalcy. Beauty is everywhere, love is endless, and joy bleeds from our everyday existence. Embrace it. I love all of you, all my friends, family, and community. I am ceaselessly grateful from the bottom of my heart for everyone. The only thing I can ask of you is to stay free of materialism. Remember that every day contains a universe of potential; exhaust it. Live and love so immensely that when death comes there is nothing left for him to take. Wealth is love, music, sports, learning, family and freedom. Above all, stay gold.”
― Dominic Owen Mallary
― Dominic Owen Mallary
“When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen
“My coffee gets increasingly better the more I drink and the closer I come to the bottom of the cup, where all the sugar is. I wonder if life is the same way as we approach the end.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
“I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“Take what comes and live life without complaint. What will be, will be. Life is a woman's gift; death is God's.”
― Nancy McKenzie, Queen of Camelot
― Nancy McKenzie, Queen of Camelot
“One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.”
― Carlos Fuentes
― Carlos Fuentes
“The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive”
― Stanley Kubrick
― Stanley Kubrick
“You can still be cool when you’re dead. In fact, it’s much easier, because you aren’t getting old and fat and losing your hair.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
“If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa
― Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa
“... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life.”
― Lisa Genova, Still Alice
― Lisa Genova, Still Alice
“We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.”
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
“That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.”
― Samuel Johnson
― Samuel Johnson
“We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.”
― Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter
― Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter
“You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.”
― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”
― Epicurus
― Epicurus
“Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”
― Jean Cocteau
― Jean Cocteau
“Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“To pursue wisdom is to live in such a way that one is prepared to face death when it comes. (247)”
― Gregory Bassham, The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy: Hogwarts for Muggles
― Gregory Bassham, The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy: Hogwarts for Muggles
“Odd, isn’t it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day…”
― Mary Downing Hahn, The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall
― Mary Downing Hahn, The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall
“What is a man's life but a prelude to his death? And what is death but a long sleep, a most welcome forgetfulness.”
― Lisa M. Klein, Ophelia
― Lisa M. Klein, Ophelia
“You can’t live your life thinking death is going to come all the time. You have to live life and if it comes, then we can only hope we were able to do all the things we wanted. He has to want to do something. Everyone does.”
― Shelena Shorts
― Shelena Shorts
“I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true.”
― Maya Angelou
― Maya Angelou
“We are all the fools of time and terror: Days
Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live,
Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.”
― George Gordon Byron
Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live,
Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.”
― George Gordon Byron
“Perhaps it's better if I live in your heart, where the world can't see me. If I'm dead, there will be no stain on our love.”
― Greta Garbo
― Greta Garbo
“Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says.
it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem
it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem
“Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After
“Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them.”
― Poppy Z. Brite, Lost Souls
― Poppy Z. Brite, Lost Souls
“Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish?”
― Alfred de Vigny, Stello
― Alfred de Vigny, Stello
“Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
“Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place. You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind. Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“He made me feel unhinged . . . like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again.”
― Chelsie Shakespeare
― Chelsie Shakespeare
“The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.”
― Emil Cioran
― Emil Cioran
“Surplus meant unnecessary. Not required.
You couldn’t be a Surplus if you were needed by someone else. You couldn’t be a Surplus if you were loved.
”
― Gemma Malley, The Declaration
You couldn’t be a Surplus if you were needed by someone else. You couldn’t be a Surplus if you were loved.
”
― Gemma Malley, The Declaration
“Because the plan God has for each of our lives isn't always the same plan we have for ourselves, Grace. Sometimes, our deaths have more of an impact than our births. It can inspire people to do great things, even greater than they would have had the deaths not happened at all.”
― S.L. Naeole, Falling From Grace
― S.L. Naeole, Falling From Grace
“But all that is warm will go cold. My ears will fall off and my eyes will melt. My mouth will be clamped shut. My lips will turn to glue.
...No taste or smell or touch or sound.Nothing to look at. Total emptiness for ever.”
― Jenny Downham, Before I Die
...No taste or smell or touch or sound.Nothing to look at. Total emptiness for ever.”
― Jenny Downham, Before I Die
“Don't fear the gods,
Don't worry about death;
What is good is easy to get, and
What is terrible is easy to endure.”
― Epicurus, The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia
Don't worry about death;
What is good is easy to get, and
What is terrible is easy to endure.”
― Epicurus, The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia
“Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
“We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.”
― Alex Scarrow, The Eternal War
― Alex Scarrow, The Eternal War
“The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.”
― Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One
― Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One
“Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.”
― Michael Landon Jr.
― Michael Landon Jr.
“...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath. ”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
“When do you think people die? When they are shot through the heart by the bullet of a pistol? No. When they are ravaged by an incurable disease? No. When they drink a soup made from a poisonous mushroom!? No! It’s when… they are forgotten.
Dr. Hiriluk (One Piece)”
― Eiichiro Oda
Dr. Hiriluk (One Piece)”
― Eiichiro Oda
“I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.”
― Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days
― Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days
“There is just as much beauty in birth as there is in death, and it changes our lives just the same. They both add things to us and take things away." Pg. 155 Undone”
― Brooke Taylor, Undone
― Brooke Taylor, Undone
“But my point, you see is that death is misunderstood. The loss of one's life is not the greatest loss. It is no loss at all. To others, perhaps, but not to oneself.”
― Tom Rachman, The Imperfectionists
― Tom Rachman, The Imperfectionists
“Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
― Franz Kafka
― Franz Kafka
“Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... it all fades-
except love. Love is forever and there after, even when we've fallen to our graves.”
― Lee Argus
except love. Love is forever and there after, even when we've fallen to our graves.”
― Lee Argus
“Chronic anxiety is a state more undesirable than any other, and we will try almost any maneuver to eliminate it. Modern man is living in anxious anticipation of destruction. Such anxiety can be easily eliminated by self-destruction. As a German saying puts it: 'Better an end with terror than a terror without end.”
― Robert E. Neale, The Art of Dying
― Robert E. Neale, The Art of Dying
“A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.”
― Jean Racine
― Jean Racine
“I hope the leaving is joyful, and I hope never to return.”
― Frida Kahlo
― Frida Kahlo
“Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.”
― Anna Quindlen, Every Last One
― Anna Quindlen, Every Last One
“The most important thing I learnt on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just the way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever. When any Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in a bad condition in that particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.”
― Liam Callanan, The Cloud Atlas
― Liam Callanan, The Cloud Atlas
“Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part One
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part One
“I'm not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of the sun... let each of us be an Artemis, Odysseus, or Zeus... Aphrodite to the extent of the will of each one.”
― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy
― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy
“Every morning is my birthday and every night is my death-day.”
― Santosh Kalwar
― Santosh Kalwar
“They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, heaven or hell is born.”
― Paulo Coelho, Aleph
― Paulo Coelho, Aleph
“When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree
― Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree
“I have no intention of dying. In fact, it will be the last thing I do!”
― Milton Erickson
― Milton Erickson
“If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come
“And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
― Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
“We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living”
― Confucius
― Confucius
“You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires only a moment, this moment. And along with it all the mindfulness we can muster, and each stage of our ongoing birth, and the confident joy of our inherent luminosity. (24)”
― Stephen Levine, A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
― Stephen Levine, A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
“If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.”
― Richard Wright
― Richard Wright
“In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Miles to Go
― Richard Paul Evans, Miles to Go
“How easy to be a bird or an animal, living from day to day, unaware you're alive, unaware that one day you will die.”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers
― Rachel Ward, Numbers
“But really, anybody could die any day, whether you were ready or not. It could be your pet fish or your sister or you. Nothing is the same forever. Maybe all the people on Earth are God's little pet fish. God lives such a long time that people's lives probably seem really short to him. He watches them swim for a little while, and then they stop swimming. ”
― Suzanne LaFleur, Love, Aubrey
― Suzanne LaFleur, Love, Aubrey
“The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
“Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska
― John Green, Looking for Alaska
“A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.”
― Dean Koontz, The Husband
― Dean Koontz, The Husband
“Death is not the end
Death can never be the end.
Death is the road.
Life is the traveller.
The Soul is the Guide
...
Our mind thinks of death.
Our heart thinks of life
Our soul thinks of Immortality”
― Sri Chinmoy
Death can never be the end.
Death is the road.
Life is the traveller.
The Soul is the Guide
...
Our mind thinks of death.
Our heart thinks of life
Our soul thinks of Immortality”
― Sri Chinmoy
“How sad, ye Gods, how sad the world is at evening, how mysterious the mists over the swamps! You will know it when you have wandered astray in those mists, when you have suffered greatly before dying, when you have walked through the world carrying an unbearable burden. You know it too when you are weary and ready to leave this earth without regret; its mists; its swamps and its rivers; ready to give yourself into the arms of death with a light heart, knowing that death alone can comfort you.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
“Death is the reward for living”
― Sylvia Browne, Life on the Other Side: A Psychic's Tour of the Afterlife
― Sylvia Browne, Life on the Other Side: A Psychic's Tour of the Afterlife
“the sensation of trying to escape... but never being able to... i'm sure i felt that... that's... death”
― Allen Walker
― Allen Walker
“Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)”
― Julia Cameron, God is No Laughing Matter
― Julia Cameron, God is No Laughing Matter
“Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it.”
― Laurence Gonzales, Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
― Laurence Gonzales, Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
“My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way”
― Ali Shariati
― Ali Shariati
“Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.”
― Ray Bradbury, Farewell Summer
― Ray Bradbury, Farewell Summer
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students."
[Letter, November 1856]”
― Hector Berlioz
[Letter, November 1856]”
― Hector Berlioz
“Music links us humans, heart to heart...Across time and space, and life and death.”
― Nancy Werlin, Impossible
― Nancy Werlin, Impossible
“So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on the subject. People were either too young or too old, or else they didn't have time.”
― Tove Jansson, The Summer Book
― Tove Jansson, The Summer Book
“Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.”
― Emm Cole, Keeping Merminia
― Emm Cole, Keeping Merminia
“Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.”
― Khalil Gibran
― Khalil Gibran
“And thus we all are nighing
The truth we fear to know:
Death will end our crying
For friends that come and go.”
― Edwin Arlington Robinson
The truth we fear to know:
Death will end our crying
For friends that come and go.”
― Edwin Arlington Robinson
“The fear of death haunted me for a year. I cried whenever anyone dropped a glass or broke a picture. But even then that passed, I was left with a sadness that couldn't be rubbed off. It wasn't that something had happened. It was worse: I'd become aware of what had been with me all along without my notice. I dragged this new awareness around like a stone tied to my ankle. Wherever I went, it followed. I used to make up little sad songs in my head. I eulogized the falling leaves. I imagined my death in a hundred different ways, but the funeral was always the same: from somewhere in my imagination, out rolled a red carpet. Because after every secret death I died, my greatness was always discovered.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“Death has this much to be said for it:
You don't have to get out of bed for it.
Wherever you happen to be
They bring it to you—free.”
― Kingsley Amis
You don't have to get out of bed for it.
Wherever you happen to be
They bring it to you—free.”
― Kingsley Amis
“Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.”
― Jean Cocteau
― Jean Cocteau
“We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.”
― Sophocles, Antigone
― Sophocles, Antigone
“The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.”
― Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf
― Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf
“Wherever you feel death, feel it. Don’t escape. Death is beautiful; death is the greatest mystery, more mysterious than life. Through life you can gain the world, the futile world- meaningless, worthless. Through death you can gain the eternal. Death is the door.”
― Osho
― Osho
“Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff;
Life and these lips have long been separated:
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Life and these lips have long been separated:
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“To you, death does not simply end life. It steals away the sunsets you'll never see, the children you'll never hold, the wife you'll never love. It's frightening to almost lose your future, and it's heartbreaking to witness death snuff out other people's tomorrows.”
― Robert Liparulo, Gatekeepers
― Robert Liparulo, Gatekeepers
“Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!”
― Ted Dekker, Forbidden
― Ted Dekker, Forbidden
“No pain, no gain." You can hear the phrase in the world of physical exercise and conditioning. Muscles that feel no pain are probably getting neither stronger, nor more flexible. It presents an analogy for the exercise of the heart. Those who run the risk of genuine love alone must worry about emotional pain. The more friends; the more good-byes - and the more wakes to attend, the more graves to visit, the more deaths to share. Those who truly live life to the fullest will bear the full cup of suffering. Only those who are willing to pay the price in pain and anguish find life full to the brim. Happy people also suffer; they are no more lucky than the rest. They create their own happiness. That's the rule of thumb.
Some thumbs, however, don't seem to rule very well. Slogans and catch-words, for all their conventional wisdom, fail to carry the whole weight of truth; they leave too much room for false inferences. "No pain, no gain" may leave one with nothing but pain - an intolerable amount of it. There is simply no guarantee that pain will bring gain, that hardship will yield happiness, that suffering will make one a better person. It may; but it's not inevitable.”
― Robert Dykstra, She Never Said Good-Bye
Some thumbs, however, don't seem to rule very well. Slogans and catch-words, for all their conventional wisdom, fail to carry the whole weight of truth; they leave too much room for false inferences. "No pain, no gain" may leave one with nothing but pain - an intolerable amount of it. There is simply no guarantee that pain will bring gain, that hardship will yield happiness, that suffering will make one a better person. It may; but it's not inevitable.”
― Robert Dykstra, She Never Said Good-Bye
“Our essence is change. We are movement. Being out of balance is life.
Perfect balance. Stasis. That is death.
Life yearns for perfection. Death is perfection.”
― Chris Boucher, Doctor Who: Last Man Running
Perfect balance. Stasis. That is death.
Life yearns for perfection. Death is perfection.”
― Chris Boucher, Doctor Who: Last Man Running
“Life and death- what paltry words, what tarnished bookends,what unjust summation for drawing breath one moment and failing to release it the next.”
― Rebecca Rasmussen, The Bird Sisters
― Rebecca Rasmussen, The Bird Sisters
“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose,
But young men think it is, and we were young.”
― A.E. Housman, More Poems
But young men think it is, and we were young.”
― A.E. Housman, More Poems
“If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood
― Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood
“Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.”
― Homer, The Iliad
― Homer, The Iliad
“When we talk about sin, we need to understand what sin is. Sin is not God says 'you can't do this' because He wants to take something away from you. He says: "If you do this, it will be death. If you do this, it will be life." And then He says: "Please, choose life, so that you can live. I've made you, I know how you work. I've made this whole Earth, I know how it works. Please, choose life.”
― Lacey Mosley
― Lacey Mosley
“[B]e comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing to deserve it. And when you resent the ache in your heart, remember: You will be dead and buried soon enough.”
― P. Harding
― P. Harding
“Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away. I could only re-experience with total cognizance, unprotected by pretense. Self delusion was impossible, truth exposed in this blinding light. Nothing as I thought it had been. Nothing as I hoped it had been. Only as it had been.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come
“Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.”
― Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays
― Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays
“Most people don't want to die, but they don't want to live either. I am speaking about men now as much as women. They look for a third way, but there is no third way.”
― Jonathan Rosen, Eve's Apple: A Novel
― Jonathan Rosen, Eve's Apple: A Novel
“Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched before one now stretched before him.”
― Steven Erikson
― Steven Erikson
“Death is not a reaper, like they say, nor even a friend. It is a dark, fierce water, an inundation.”
― Siobhan Dowd, Bog Child
― Siobhan Dowd, Bog Child
“When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.”
― Ruth Reichl, Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
― Ruth Reichl, Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
“Tonight I want to stand on the side of a cliff and look down, dare the wind to gust and knock me off. Everyone thinks that falling to your death is the worst thing that can happen. But that’s a lie. The worst thing is to be alive for no reason.”
― Tammara Webber, Good For You
― Tammara Webber, Good For You
“If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That's what people meant when they talked about going to heaven. It was like waking up.”
― Ian McEwan, The Daydreamer
― Ian McEwan, The Daydreamer
“Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.”
― David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
― David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“I would’ve died at sixteen years old if a miracle didn’t happened and saved my life. I would’ve committed suicide. And I know that there’s people here that feel crappy and they feel like life doesn’t make sense sometimes. But what’s amazing is that that’s only temporary and you can get through it.”
― Lacey Mosley
― Lacey Mosley
“There would be no chance to get to know death at all ...if it happened only once.”
― Sogyal Rinpoche
― Sogyal Rinpoche
“Then on your tombstone, where you only get a little bit of space to sum up your life, some wax-faced creep chisels a set of meaningless numbers instead of poetry or a secret love or the name of your favorite candy.
In the end, all you get is a few words.”
― Scott Nicholson
In the end, all you get is a few words.”
― Scott Nicholson
“I watch my loved ones weep with sorrow,
death's silent torment of no tomorrow.
I feel their hearts breaking, I sense their despair,
United in misery, the grief that they share.
How do I show that, I am not gone...
but the essence of life's everlasting song
Why do they wee? Why do they cry?
I'm alive in the wind and I am soaring high.
I am sparkling light dancing on streams,
a moment of warmth in the fays of sunbeams.
The coolness of rain as it falls on your face,
the whisper of leaves as wind rushes with haste.
Eternal Song, a requiem by Avian of Celieria
from Crown of Crystal Flame by C.L. Wilson”
― C.L. Wilson, Crown of Crystal Flame
death's silent torment of no tomorrow.
I feel their hearts breaking, I sense their despair,
United in misery, the grief that they share.
How do I show that, I am not gone...
but the essence of life's everlasting song
Why do they wee? Why do they cry?
I'm alive in the wind and I am soaring high.
I am sparkling light dancing on streams,
a moment of warmth in the fays of sunbeams.
The coolness of rain as it falls on your face,
the whisper of leaves as wind rushes with haste.
Eternal Song, a requiem by Avian of Celieria
from Crown of Crystal Flame by C.L. Wilson”
― C.L. Wilson, Crown of Crystal Flame
“That's how I want to go. Taking my own way out and totally pissing everybody off at the end.”
― L.J. Smith, Night World, No. 3
― L.J. Smith, Night World, No. 3
“Too easy to lose the way.
Too hard to keep from unraveling when there’s nothing to remind you of who you
are and where you should be.
Another eternity passes in the flick of an eyelash.”
― Diana Rowland, Mark of the Demon
Too hard to keep from unraveling when there’s nothing to remind you of who you
are and where you should be.
Another eternity passes in the flick of an eyelash.”
― Diana Rowland, Mark of the Demon
Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.
I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.
I'm gonna live till I die.
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
In the long run we are all dead.
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.
Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
We die only once, and for such a long time.
There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
You'll have time to rest when you're dead.
If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
Everything that gets born dies.
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.
Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths.
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
For me, habit is just a synonym for death.
We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
A useless life is an early death.
Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
An unused life is an early death.
We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
The goal of all life is death.
No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
For me, habit is just a synonym for death.
We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
A useless life is an early death.
Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
An unused life is an early death.
We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
The goal of all life is death.
No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.
Billy Graham
Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.
I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.
Give me liberty or give me death.
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
Death is a distant rumor to the young.
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
In every parting there is an image of death.
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good.
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking.
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.
The 'Course in Miracles' says one day you will realize that death is not the punishment but the reward. And it says that birth is not the beginning of life but a continuation. And physical death is not the end of life but a continuation.
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.
I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.
Give me liberty or give me death.
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
Death is a distant rumor to the young.
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
In every parting there is an image of death.
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good.
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking.
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.
The 'Course in Miracles' says one day you will realize that death is not the punishment but the reward. And it says that birth is not the beginning of life but a continuation. And physical death is not the end of life but a continuation.
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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