Death and dying quotes

1. Quotes on death and dying created by charmaine

2. “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troubleso me . ” Isaac Asimov

3. “ To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...” ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

4. “Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” ― Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

5. “If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.” ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

6. ...Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference in your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word it always was. Let it be spoken without effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well.” ― Rosamunde Pilcher , September

7. “I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.” ― Adrienne Rich , Twenty One Love Poems

8. “Dying is a universe of  its own . ” ― Arlene Ang , Seeing Birds in Church Is a Kind of Adieu

9. “We do not look for reason for logic in the passionate entreaties of those who are sick unto death; we are stung with the recollection of a thousand slighted opportunities of fulfilling the wishes of those who will soon pass away from among us: and do they ask us for the future happiness of our lives, we lay it at their feet, and will it away from us.” ― Elizabeth Gaskell , North and South

10. “There is a thin line that separates life from death, but once it's crossed, it becomes as large as an ocean, and so treacherous that it’s impossible to cross back.” ― Federico Chini , The Sea Of Forgotten Memories

11. The erruption of feelings & emotions that follows a near-death exerience , or any event that causes us to stop & look deeply at the reality of our lives, is ripe with the potential for insight & clarity.” ― Allan Lokos , Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

12. “And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.” ― Jack London

13. “Instead, I opened my eyes to find the thing in front of my face, wafting dead horse breath across my chin and up my nose, its mouth like a gaping maw; its eyes, two giant wormholes, twisting and bending with some apparitional substance that could have been space and time if I’d known anything about physics.” ― Shannon Celebi , 1:32 P.M.

14. “Her past is behind her, her future is of little concern. She moves towards the grave, at her own speed.” ― Anne Enright , The Gathering

15. “Did not we vow that we would neither of us be either before or after the other even in travelling the last journey of life? And can you find it in your heart to leave me now?” ― Murasaki Shikibu , The Tale of Genji

16. “They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars, Like petals from a rose, When suddenly across the lune A wind with fingers goes. They perished in the seamless grass, No eye could find the place; But God on his repealless list Can summon every face” ― Emily Dickinson

17. “That's the secret. If you always make sure you're exactly the person you hoped to be, if you always make sure you know only the very best people, then you won't care if you die tomorrow.” ― Carol Rifka Brunt , Tell the Wolves I'm Home

18. “This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.” ― Barbara Kingsolver , Homeland and Other Stories

19. I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?” ― Jack Kerouac

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