Quotes about Death and Dying

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying. Votes: 4

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Votes: 4

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life. Votes: 3

Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize. Votes: 3

Knowing about reincarnation helps us relax. It assists us with an understanding of death and dying. Death is not an end, quite the contrary. Votes: 3

Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable. Votes: 3

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does. Votes: 3

My doctor told me that I drastically needed to lose weight. Fear of death and dying motivated meto make many lifestyle changes that led me to eventually shed over 100 pounds. Votes: 3

Anna Deavere Smith's new one-woman show bills itself as being about health care, but the truth is that 'Let Me Down Easy' is mostly about the grimmer subject of death and dying. Votes: 3

Approaches to death and dying reveal much of the attitude of society as a whole to the individuals who compose it. The development of ideas of what constitutes a good death can even be traced to prehistory. Votes: 3

When your partner gets cancer, then life changes. Your timetable and reference for your normal routines and the way you view life, all this changes. Because you're dealing with death. You're dealing with the possibility of death and dying. Votes: 3

Dying is a wild night and a new road. Votes: 2

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me. Votes: 2

Death belongs to the dying and those who love them. Votes: 2

Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life. Votes: 2

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Votes: 2

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite. Votes: 2

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. Votes: 2

If you want me again look for me under your boot soles. Votes: 2

Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying. Votes: 2

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death. Votes: 2

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. Votes: 2

I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to. Votes: 2

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying. Votes: 2

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. Votes: 2

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die. Votes: 2

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep. Votes: 2

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. Votes: 2

Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death Votes: 2

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle. Votes: 2

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. Votes: 2

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing. Votes: 2

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that. Votes: 2

We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige. Votes: 2

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever. Votes: 2

To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come... Votes: 2

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know. Votes: 2

As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer. Votes: 2

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death. Votes: 2

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise. Votes: 2

I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time. Votes: 2

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got. Votes: 2

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse. Votes: 2

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death. Votes: 2

All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about death. And in 'Romeo and Juliet' everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death. Votes: 2

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. Votes: 2

But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death. Votes: 2

Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner. Votes: 2

You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life. Votes: 2

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself. Votes: 2

His death certificate says he died first of pneumonia and secondly of Alzheimer's disease. They could have listed another cause of death: a refusal to properly care for dementia sufferers, even when they are violent, and an equal inability to care for their carers. My dad died of dementia, but also because dying was the easiest way to treat him. Votes: 2

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody. Votes: 1

Try and blow my cake, just know that's a death wish. Votes: 1

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there Votes: 1

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings Votes: 1

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but caring little for it, and even less for my imperfect garden Votes: 1

When you die that doesn't mean you lost to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and the manner in which you live. Votes: 1

Life will come our way, it has only just begun The world will die alone, the frail will fall below Time will take our place, we return it back to one The calm before the cold, the long and lonely road. Votes: 1

Looking at Death, is Dying - ... Votes: 0

Only death rescues us from dying. Votes: 0

Death frees from the fear of dying Votes: 0

Fear of death is worse than dying. Votes: 0

The only death I fear is dying ignorant. Votes: 0

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death. Votes: 0

The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying. Votes: 0

Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying. Votes: 0

It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death. Votes: 0

If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death? Votes: 0

Death does not frighten me, but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does. Votes: 0

I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death. Votes: 0

Maybe you think life is not worth living, but is death worth dying for? Votes: 0

I choose to live until death, not spend the time dying until death occurs. Votes: 0

I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore. Votes: 0

Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing. Votes: 0

if death becomes cheap it is the watcher, not the dying, who is poisoned. Votes: 0

Maybe you think life is not worth living, but is death worth dying for~? Votes: 0

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible. Votes: 0

I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying. Votes: 0

There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell. Votes: 0

Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours. Votes: 0

If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final. Votes: 0

The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes. Votes: 0

Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying Votes: 0

Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times. Votes: 0

I play Hopkins' daughter. Brad Pitt plays Death. He's a very-good looking Death. With him, dying isn't so bad. Votes: 0

DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH. Votes: 0

...the one aim of those who practice philosophy in the proper manner is to practice for dying and death. Votes: 0

Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying. Votes: 0

To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying. Votes: 0

Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is, death ends. This? It can go on forever. Votes: 0

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment. Votes: 0

TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows. Votes: 0

The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase. Votes: 0

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates. Votes: 0

I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots, Votes: 0

You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying. Votes: 0

Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light. Votes: 0

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me. Votes: 0

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject. Votes: 0

Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death. Why shouldst thou be afraid to die, who hopest to live by dying! Votes: 0

We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us. We are afraid of not having lived. Votes: 0

The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive. Votes: 0

We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not. Votes: 0

In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford. Votes: 0

Riegger's Dichotomy sounded as though a pack of rats were being slowly tortured to death while, from time to time, a dying cow moaned. Votes: 0

Another difference between death and taxes is that you don't have to work like fury to pay for the dying you did last year. Votes: 0

Everyday hundreds of people came to the hospital... dying, and I have to introduce life into them again... my duty was to compete with death. Votes: 0

Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying. Votes: 0

Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us. Votes: 0

Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. ("Death Ship") Votes: 0

Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques Votes: 0

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche. Votes: 0

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy. Votes: 0

The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event. Votes: 0

Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death... Votes: 0

Look: We hate nothing that exists, not even death, suffering and dying, does not horrify our souls, as long as we learn more deeply to love. Votes: 0

My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer. Votes: 0

Dying well is easy,it only takes a moment of courage. It’s living well that I couldn’t do. What’s death compared to that. Votes: 0

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease. Votes: 0

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away. Votes: 0

Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease. Votes: 0

There were worse things than death, as she'd discovered. Sometimes living took far more courage. Facing another day. Enduring. Those things took strength. Far more than dying. Votes: 0

Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was invented: to escape teenagers altogether. Votes: 0

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end. Votes: 0

Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this! Votes: 0

Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him. Votes: 0

We professional athletes are very lucky. Unlike most mortals, we are given the privilege of dying twice - once when we retire and again when death takes us. Votes: 0

When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord with the patient's wishes. Votes: 0

Death is a fact of life, no matter where you live. Taking care of the dying is a necessity everywhere. Those are not conditions exclusive to small towns. Votes: 0

Kugel was a firm believer that death was not always a bad thing - that life often reached such levels of crapitude that dying was preferable to living. Votes: 0

I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me. Votes: 0

I don't think I've ever been particularly scared of death - but scared of dying, the process. It doesn't seem to be a good way of doing it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I was thinking about dying the other day the death thought came while I was sitting on the toilet peeing - that's where I have my most contemplative thoughts. Votes: 0

Dying to your own attachments is a beautiful death. Because this death releases you into real life. You have to die as a seed to live as a tree. Votes: 0

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap. Votes: 0

Soon I will honor my parents by dying as they died. and if all they believed about death was true, soon I will join them in whatever comes next. Votes: 0

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children; Votes: 0