Facing Death Quotes

“I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera.

The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“Isn't it sad that so often it takes facing death to appreciate life and each other fully?”
― Lori Earl, This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

“Differences disappear when faced with death.”
― Shannon A. Thompson, 2013: A Stellar Collection

“He swore by all that he ever had loved and reverenced that he would try, try with all his might in the short time that might remain to him...he would forget himself, he would put his own pain and chagrin and disappointment, his own feeling of defeat and uselessness, his own craving for love and intellectual companionship in the background, and he would see if the more than six feet of bone and muscle that contained his being could do any small service that might come his way for God and his fellow man before he went. Maybe if he could accomplish some little thing, something that would ease the ache of even one heart that ached as his was aching at that minute, just maybe that knowledge would be the secret that he might carry in his breast that would set the stamp of an indelible smile on his face, so that even a child could discern the majesty of the impulse and he would not be ashamed when the end came.”
― Gene Stratton-Porter, The Keeper of the Bees

“But old age, to begin with, has something in common with death. Some face it with indifference, not because they have more courage than others, but because they have less imagination.”
― Marcel Proust, Time Regained

“There are worse things than to cross the bridge into the peace that is Heaven. In fact, there is really nothing better. I know it’s hard for you to face my death. It’s harder for you than it is for me. I am not grieving. You are. You do not grieve for me; you grieve for you for the loss of me. There is no loss in this scenario for me. I will have the peace that is Heaven and I will still have you. I will have everything.”
― Kate McGahan, Only Gone From Your Sight: Jack McAfghan's Little Therapy Guide to Pet Loss and Grief

“He begged before he died, you know. Your mighty Tolyev. You all beg, Nikita. That's what they don't tell you. When you see the end coming, past all the bluff and bluster, the thees and thous, in that final moment, you all beg like fucking children. And you die like fucking dogs.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Damned

“If death were to come, it would not rob me of my final thoughts- they would not be in fear but of love.”
― Meredith T. Taylor, Clashing Waters: The Obyascon Prince

“I’m scared,’ I whisper to Hubby. ‘I know,’ he says. What else can he say?
When you’re facing death, you have to walk that walk alone.”
― Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

“But her smile was bleak, without light or warmth. And for the first time I thought of what it must be like to know that you were going to die, that the trees would bud, flower, leaf, dry, die, and you would not be there to see any of it.”
― Anna Quindlen, One True Thing

“Sometimes it takes a bleeding ulcer, to bring together a near-fatal relationship of a father and son, that has gone when the fists couldn't break through a seventeen year mirror, anymore.”
― Anthony Liccione, Symmetry

“But for reasons she would never be able to articulate to anyone, herself included, she took a few steps more into the despairing darkness that had gathered particularly thick in that remote corner of the death camp where she and her helpless child would surely die. Their lives, their deaths, unfit for even the roaches and the crawling things of the world.”
― Casey Fisher, The Subtle Cause

“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