Dying Well Quotes

“If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.”
― Robert Jordan

“You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to living, you will not be able to die well. You must begin to shift gears, a little at a time. Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value."--Nimit in "Thailand”
― Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

“Your father died for me, and dying with you would be an honor, though not as great as dying to save you.”
― N.D. Wilson, Leepike Ridge

“Embrace the path your loved one's story has taken, and be part of the culture shift that acknowledges dying as part of living.”
― Carrie Chavez Hansen

“The dead only knows their world.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“By seizing every opportunity for kindness, forgiveness, healing, and love that crosses my path each day, I hope that my death, although perhaps sad for some, will be gracefully concluded.”
― Lisa J. Shultz, A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent

“The Count himself was ready to die, and he would be glad to die here alone, without pretence and mockery, with no troop of expectant relatives about his bed. The world was not what he had thought it at twenty-- or even at forty.”
― Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock

“What will be your death note?”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Be glad for your sacred days on earth.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Everything that flowers, dies too, but in its dying provides seed of a new beginning.”
― Shashi, Songs of the Mist

“She always said she'd prefer to die on her way to the moon than under a runaway bus.”
― Alan Bradley, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd

“Do I have anything to lose? This life will be gone one day to the Creator who gave it.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“You may have collected many useful profound texts – philosophical scriptures,
Spoken advice, transcribed teachings,
Yet if you do not practice, at the time of death, books don’t help.
Observe your mind! This is my advice from the heart.”
― Longchen Rabjam, Longchenpa's Advice from the Heart

“She chanted the incantation as purifying white flames consumed her body. Dying, she prayed her invocation would destroy the Atrox.
Her heartbeat slowed and something let go. She rose above her apartment into the night. Death was nothing more than the separation of the body from the mind. Joy transported her and she embraced the white moonlight.”
― Lynne Ewing, The Talisman