Dying Quotes Quotes

“Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. Every flower returns to sleep with the earth. The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimate
art.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Dying is like the ocean, sometimes the tide comes in gently with soft, delicate waves quietly working in the background. Other days, the waves violently crash into explosions, demanding to be noticed but regardless of how it chooses to do its job, the tide will always come in.”
― Sarah Riad, The Sharp Knife of a Short Life

“Death is the great equalizer of human beings. Death is the boundary that we need to measure the precious texture of our lives. All people owe a death. There is no use vexing about inevitable degeneration and death because far greater people than me succumbed to death’s endless sleep without living as many years as me.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Skinny as Mum was, she'd always had a good appetite, so when she couldn't eat her roast potatoes I knew the end must be nigh.
[...] We opened our presents and Mum put a polka-dot shower cap on her head and let us take pictures of her in it, which was most unlike her, she liked to be a bit dignified about things. This was another indication that she knew she was dying. Other signs to look out for are when an elderly person starts giving away their things – usually about two or three years before they die – and if they insist, rather aggressively, on returning anything they've borrowed or get annoyed if you give them gifts – they don't want any more clutter.”
― Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

“When you show people a picture of a circle with a small wedge cut out of it, their eyes first go to the missing piece every time. It is easy among the doctors, the needles, and the tubes to lose sight of the beauty that was. Despite our pain, our fear, and our very real loses, we would do well to think about our many past blessing with our loved one who is now diminished. There is so much more to who we were and who we are than just the missing piece.”
― Steve Leder, The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift

“The greatest lesson I have learned in life is that life is worth dying for.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“If no one cares whether you are
living or dying, then choose living.

What have you lost when you still have God."

—Khadija Rupa.”
― Khadija Rupa

“A wise woman once told me that long ago, a young warrior conquered death, so that we would never have to fear it again. All those we have lost--they are not gone. For we will see them again when the last curtain falls, and the great battle has been won. They'll be there, waiting for us, with their feet dangling in some wide, warm river in the midst of eternal spring, I suppose. Death really isn't so bad--just a doorway, really.”
― Ella Rose Carlos, A Long Lost Fantasy

“Death is the evil twin of life.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know?”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Death is our best motivator in life. The idea of dying or not seeing the sun tomorrow will keep you up on your toes.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“No matter what you have heard: the line between life and death is not definite. Not like a wall, thick and hard to break, but constantly moving and volatile. It isn’t actually a line: not visible to the eye, but as hard to define as the water passage where the tide meets a river current. Standing at the shore, can anyone determine where the river ends and the sea begins and standing in life, can anyone determine when exactly they start to die?”
― Sima B. Moussavian

“You will not stop them from dying. At best, you will stop them from dying today.”
― Aude Mermilliod, Le Chœur des femmes

“A tree does not despair when its fruit falls to the ground, because it knows in due time, its seeds will rise.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Before dying, you shall learn the language of life in front of you”
― Sir P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Here comes music, Ma. Just listen to my voice. You can't get lost in music, Ma.”
― Barbara Lynn-Vannoy

“A hospice nurse, on the advice of a Catholic chaplain decades ago, left the window slightly open to make it easier for one's spirit to travel. Ma had sung with her son twenty-one hours before she passed by him toward that window; indeed she sang until the day she died, just as she said she would, and I believe it was her harmony, not her spirit that first arrived at heaven's door.”
― Barbara Lynn-Vannoy

“when a seven years old girl comes to our car and knocks at the glass because she wants 10 rupees to buy a loaf of bread for her mother we don't give her because we are standing outside the McDonalds to spend thousands of rupee just to change the taste of our tongue. How miserable we are!!!”
― Iqra Ijaz

“Many may ask if to be alive, to die or to never live is the greatest suffering. But all the answers are subjected to the feeling itself; for many suffer but not everybody lives. And the one who never felt any pain is lost for the thought to live. So if there is any truth to it all - it is that everyone suffers in their own way and nobody understands the way of others. For truth may live or perish, but in the end, it indeed suffers.”
― Laura Chouette

“If there is no free-will, then no sinners either. Everything you do must be God's plan. Simply, because you were predestined to do these things in your life. Living and dying like a prisoner, chained by the lack of freedom of choice.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Sometimes, it is kindest to help senior folk pass on as peacefully and well as possible rather than pushing them to stay. In other situations, the last few years of their lives earn more advancement on the spiritual path than several lifetimes put together.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“All we do, from the moment we are born to the day we die, is wait.

We wait for death to wrap its arms around us.

If you truly think about this, the true question in life to ask yourself is: "How do I want to wait?”
― Jellis Vaes

“It’s better to die than to be dead while still alive.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Death marks not the end, but the transition into realms unknown.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“I am raging. I am screaming.
But they think of it as art.
It may be art.
Does it matter, though?
I am dying.”
― S.A. Quinox

“If you are called upon to help with the terminal illness of a loved one, the best way is to constantly have in mind the impossibility of a soul being terminal.”
― Donna Goddard, Love Matters

“The longer you live, the closer you are to death.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“The book closing on the days and the years and every slowly released hug and quick kiss to the top of the head and all the other acts and moments tabulated and tallied for the binding of the seal inalterable.”
― Casey Fisher, The Subtle Cause