death-and-dying

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
6a841a1	To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...	death-and-dying shakespeare hamlet	William Shakespeare
cffed4d	Do not go gentle into that good night	death-and-dying poetry philosophy inspirational	Dylan Thomas
408f1b1	Jamie: You know what I figured out today	miracle death-and-dying life inspirational	Nicholas Sparks
9f62b18	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 into 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 that it always was. Let it be spoken without an 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 round the corner. All is well. Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost. One brief moment and all will be as it was before. How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!	death-and-dying inspirational	Henry Scott Holland
a955097	Be calm. God awaits you at the door.	death-and-dying serenity	Gabriel García Márquez
b731281	There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer.	death-and-dying	John Green
689a2bb	I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.	death-and-dying love death-of-a-loved-one mother	Mitch Albom
2c5da30	Death twitches my ear	death-and-dying philosophical living death philosophy inspirational creepy seize-the-day carpe-diem	Virgil
a7d34c6	"Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning."	death-and-dying	Mitch Albom
192b546	The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.	death-and-dying romantic death cowpox smallpox cancer augustus-waters waters hazel-grace the-fault-in-our-stars grace beautiful hazel	John Green
a3d3f84	Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.	death-and-dying television humorous humor wisdom humorous-quotations wisdom-in-fiction internet	Chuck Palahniuk
a236c0b	How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.	death-and-dying	Kurt Vonnegut
92e3099	The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.	death-and-dying life goodbyes	Raymond Chandler
11bdb4e	Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.	death-and-dying life-and-living sister-carlotta	Orson Scott Card
46f5bce	Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.	death-and-dying pain grief mortality sadness truth grief-and-loss-quotes pain-goes-away death-of-a-loved-one grief-and-loss grieve truth-of-life	V.C. Andrews
aaf417a	Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change	death-and-dying fear reality death change fear-of-unknown changes fear-of-death	Isabel Allende
597f9fa	The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.	death-and-dying walter-scott wretch pride	Walter Scott
56df2ae	Many African societies divide humans into three categories: those still alive on the earth, the sasha, and the zamani. The recently departed whose time on earth overlapped with people still here are the sasha, the living-dead. They are not wholly dead, for they still live in the memories of the living, who can call them to mind, create their likeness in art, and bring them to life in anecdote. When the last person to know an ancestor dies, that ancestor leaves the sasha for the zamani, the dead. As generalised ancestors, the zamani are not forgotten but revered. Many ... can be recalled by name. But they are not the living-dead. There is a difference.	death-and-dying lies-my-teacher-told-me spirits ghosts	James W Loewen
130bd59	We never actively remember death,' Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not remember that we will die. We will all die.	death-and-dying mortality	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
384e3f9	People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.	death-and-dying dying	Holly Black
910c2c3	One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.	death-and-dying life	David Mitchell
f476d90	He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf guilt, if they followed, would be more clear-edged, more defined, more finite. Instead they seem like weather, like clouds constantly re-forming into new shapes, blown by nameless, unidentifiable winds.	death-and-dying illness marriage death love death-of-a-loved-one	Julian Barnes
b18a399	It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.	death-and-dying death truth self-censorship significance perspective etiquette	Neil Gaiman
e2c2931	Without warning, David was visited by an exact vision of death: a long hole in the ground, no wider than your body, down which you are drawn while the white faces above recede. You try to reach them but your arms are pinned. Shovels put dirt into your face. There you will be forever, in an upright position, blind and silent, and in time no one will remember you, and you will never be called by any angel. As strata of rock shift, your fingers elongate, and your teeth are distended sideways in a great underground grimace indistinguishable from a strip of chalk. And the earth tumbles on, and the sun expires, and unaltering darkness reigns where once there were stars.	death-and-dying short-story	John Updike
fe9f308	Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable.	death-and-dying	Juliet Marillier
de49246	Death, it turns out, is the mother of all conflicts.	death-and-dying war	Mark Z. Danielewski
e737f9a	Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.	sleep death-and-dying death czech-literature 20th-century-literature gallows-humor certainty bliss endings cynicism gifts	Milan Kundera
395deb2	She wasted and grew so thin that she no longer was a little girl, but the shadow of a little girl. The flame of her life flickered so faintly that it appeared sufficient to blow at it to extinguish it. Stas understood that death did not have to wait for a third attack to take her and he expected it any day or any hour.	death-and-dying death disease malaria wilderness sickness	Henryk Sienkiewicz
7b1444f	All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then nothing. I had searched in superstition... But there was nothing. Then I heard the sound of my own life leaving me. It was so... tender. I regretted that I had paid it no attention. Then I believed in the wisdom of what other men had found before me... I saw that those simple things might be true... I never wanted to believe in them because it was better to fight my own battle. You can believe in something without compromising the burden of your own existence.	death-and-dying war	Sebastian Faulks
9ecf383	But here I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at all--but the certain knowledge that in an hour, then in ten minutes, then in half a minute, then now--this very instant--your soul must quit your body and that you will no longer be a man--and that this is certain, certain!	death-and-dying guillotine dostoyevsky terror	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
75adc40	Be assured that any hurt to your spirit will pass in time. It is the nature of Death to take, but the nature of Life to give.	death-and-dying	Garth Nix
f40b689	You never would get through to the end of being a father, no matter where you stored your mind or how many steps in the series you followed. Not even if you died. Alive or dead a thousand miles distant, you were always going to be on the hook for work that was neither a procedure nor a series of steps but, rather, something that demanded your full, constant attention without necessarily calling you to do, perform, or say anything at all.	death-and-dying fathers fatherhood father	Michael Chabon
25de940	I always wondered what it must be like to lose a twin--if somehow Mary felt it like it was happening to her. If she felt physical pain.	death-and-dying pain loss suffering empathy empathetic twin death-of-a-loved-one suffer twins	Francesca Lia Block
0aac4fc	He would not now conduct little Nell to the coast; he would not convey her by a steamer to Port Said, would not surrender her to Mr. Rawlinson; he himself would not fall into his father's arms and would not hear from his lips that he had acted like a true Pole! The end, the end! In a few days the sun would shine only upon the lifeless bodies and afterwards would dry them up into a semblance of those mummies which slumber in an eternal sleep in the museums in Egypt	hopelessness death-and-dying doubt desert sahara	Henryk Sienkiewicz
594dbdb	In the latter months of his own long sickness the Master Herbal had taught him much of the healer's lore, and the first lesson and the last of all that lore was this: Heal the wound and cure the illness, but let the dying spirit go.	death-and-dying palliative-care healing medicine	Ursula K. Le Guin
37aa326	Si me convierto sera porque es preferible que muera un creyente a que lo haga un ateo.	death-and-dying religion	Christopher Hitchens
69be5de	Ya me sobrara tiempo para descansar cuando me muera, pero esta eventualidad no esta todavia en mis proyectos.	death-and-dying life	Gabriel García Márquez
d8423bb	The courage to continue before the face of despair is the recognition in those eyes of darkness we find our own night vision. Women blessed with death-eyes are fearless.	death-and-dying feminism women fear fearless despair	Terry Tempest Williams
ad7ba8c	Jason smiled. The sound of wings was louder now, the fluttering of angels come to carry him home.	death-and-dying war civil-war	Robert Ferrigno
5669701	N'aie pas peur de mes paroles: une morte ne veut plus rien, elle ne veut ni amour, ni pitie, ni reconfort.	death-and-dying	Stefan Zweig
1b3fcf1	"She died in my arms saying, "I don't want to die." That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we could never have war anymore."	death-and-dying war	Jonathan Safran Foer
ce1869b	It was something he had never quite understood about himself. He had seen thousands of men die in nearly ten years of war and could look on it at times with a near-total detachment, but an animal suffering - be it a horse or needra injured in battle, or the stag now dying - moved him deeply.	death-and-dying	Raymond E. Feist
ce4e282	Death was a lens that would reveal things as they really were: what was important would assume its true importance; what was unimportant would recede into the shadows.	death-and-dying inspiration	Robert Hellenga
e9d20d5	We didn't want to be reminded of how little we counted, how quickly, simply, and anonymously death came. Even though my reason wanted the state of death, I was afraid like a virgin of the act. I would have liked death to come with due warning, so that I could prepare myself. For what? I didn't know, nor how, except by taking a look around at the little I would be leaving.	death-and-dying	Graham Greene
2dc7704	"Terminado el entierro, por fin podria llorar.	death-and-dying	Diane Setterfield
f4612d6	Death is a vast mystery, but there are two things we can layabout it: It is absolutely certain that we will die, and it is uncertain when or how we will die. The only surety we have, then, is this uncertainty about the hour of our death, which we seize on as the excuse to postpone facing death directly. We are like children who cover their eyes in a game of hide-and-seek and think that no one can see them.	death-and-dying end-of-life death-quotes	Sogyal Rinpoche

6a841a1

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

death-and-dying shakespeare hamlet

William Shakespeare

cffed4d

Do not go gentle into that good night

death-and-dying poetry philosophy inspirational

Dylan Thomas

408f1b1

Jamie: You know what I figured out today

miracle death-and-dying life inspirational

Nicholas Sparks

9f62b18

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 into 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 that it always was. Let it be spoken without an 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 round the corner. All is well. Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost. One brief moment and all will be as it was before. How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!

death-and-dying inspirational

Henry Scott Holland

a955097

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

death-and-dying serenity

Gabriel García Márquez

b731281

There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer.

death-and-dying

John Green

689a2bb

I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.

death-and-dying love death-of-a-loved-one mother

Mitch Albom

2c5da30

Death twitches my ear

death-and-dying philosophical living death philosophy inspirational creepy seize-the-day carpe-diem

Virgil

a7d34c6

"Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning."

death-and-dying

Mitch Albom

192b546

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.

death-and-dying romantic death cowpox smallpox cancer augustus-waters waters hazel-grace the-fault-in-our-stars grace beautiful hazel

John Green

a3d3f84

Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

death-and-dying television humorous humor wisdom humorous-quotations wisdom-in-fiction internet

Chuck Palahniuk

a236c0b

How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

death-and-dying

Kurt Vonnegut

92e3099

The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.

death-and-dying life goodbyes

Raymond Chandler

11bdb4e

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

death-and-dying life-and-living sister-carlotta

Orson Scott Card

46f5bce

Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.

death-and-dying pain grief mortality sadness truth grief-and-loss-quotes pain-goes-away death-of-a-loved-one grief-and-loss grieve truth-of-life

V.C. Andrews

aaf417a

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change

death-and-dying fear reality death change fear-of-unknown changes fear-of-death

Isabel Allende

597f9fa

The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.

death-and-dying walter-scott wretch pride

Walter Scott

56df2ae

Many African societies divide humans into three categories: those still alive on the earth, the sasha, and the zamani. The recently departed whose time on earth overlapped with people still here are the sasha, the living-dead. They are not wholly dead, for they still live in the memories of the living, who can call them to mind, create their likeness in art, and bring them to life in anecdote. When the last person to know an ancestor dies, that ancestor leaves the sasha for the zamani, the dead. As generalised ancestors, the zamani are not forgotten but revered. Many ... can be recalled by name. But they are not the living-dead. There is a difference.

death-and-dying lies-my-teacher-told-me spirits ghosts

James W Loewen

130bd59

We never actively remember death,' Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not remember that we will die. We will all die.

death-and-dying mortality

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

384e3f9

People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.

death-and-dying dying

Holly Black

910c2c3

One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.

death-and-dying life

David Mitchell

f476d90

He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf guilt, if they followed, would be more clear-edged, more defined, more finite. Instead they seem like weather, like clouds constantly re-forming into new shapes, blown by nameless, unidentifiable winds.

death-and-dying illness marriage death love death-of-a-loved-one

Julian Barnes

b18a399

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

death-and-dying death truth self-censorship significance perspective etiquette

Neil Gaiman

e2c2931

Without warning, David was visited by an exact vision of death: a long hole in the ground, no wider than your body, down which you are drawn while the white faces above recede. You try to reach them but your arms are pinned. Shovels put dirt into your face. There you will be forever, in an upright position, blind and silent, and in time no one will remember you, and you will never be called by any angel. As strata of rock shift, your fingers elongate, and your teeth are distended sideways in a great underground grimace indistinguishable from a strip of chalk. And the earth tumbles on, and the sun expires, and unaltering darkness reigns where once there were stars.

death-and-dying short-story

John Updike

fe9f308

Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable.

death-and-dying

Juliet Marillier

de49246

Death, it turns out, is the mother of all conflicts.

death-and-dying war

Mark Z. Danielewski

e737f9a

Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.

sleep death-and-dying death czech-literature 20th-century-literature gallows-humor certainty bliss endings cynicism gifts

Milan Kundera

395deb2

She wasted and grew so thin that she no longer was a little girl, but the shadow of a little girl. The flame of her life flickered so faintly that it appeared sufficient to blow at it to extinguish it. Stas understood that death did not have to wait for a third attack to take her and he expected it any day or any hour.

death-and-dying death disease malaria wilderness sickness

Henryk Sienkiewicz

7b1444f

All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then nothing. I had searched in superstition... But there was nothing. Then I heard the sound of my own life leaving me. It was so... tender. I regretted that I had paid it no attention. Then I believed in the wisdom of what other men had found before me... I saw that those simple things might be true... I never wanted to believe in them because it was better to fight my own battle. You can believe in something without compromising the burden of your own existence.

death-and-dying war

Sebastian Faulks

9ecf383

But here I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at all--but the certain knowledge that in an hour, then in ten minutes, then in half a minute, then now--this very instant--your soul must quit your body and that you will no longer be a man--and that this is certain, certain!

death-and-dying guillotine dostoyevsky terror

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

75adc40

Be assured that any hurt to your spirit will pass in time. It is the nature of Death to take, but the nature of Life to give.

death-and-dying

Garth Nix

f40b689

You never would get through to the end of being a father, no matter where you stored your mind or how many steps in the series you followed. Not even if you died. Alive or dead a thousand miles distant, you were always going to be on the hook for work that was neither a procedure nor a series of steps but, rather, something that demanded your full, constant attention without necessarily calling you to do, perform, or say anything at all.

death-and-dying fathers fatherhood father

Michael Chabon

25de940

I always wondered what it must be like to lose a twin--if somehow Mary felt it like it was happening to her. If she felt physical pain.

death-and-dying pain loss suffering empathy empathetic twin death-of-a-loved-one suffer twins

Francesca Lia Block

0aac4fc

He would not now conduct little Nell to the coast; he would not convey her by a steamer to Port Said, would not surrender her to Mr. Rawlinson; he himself would not fall into his father's arms and would not hear from his lips that he had acted like a true Pole! The end, the end! In a few days the sun would shine only upon the lifeless bodies and afterwards would dry them up into a semblance of those mummies which slumber in an eternal sleep in the museums in Egypt

hopelessness death-and-dying doubt desert sahara

Henryk Sienkiewicz

594dbdb

In the latter months of his own long sickness the Master Herbal had taught him much of the healer's lore, and the first lesson and the last of all that lore was this: Heal the wound and cure the illness, but let the dying spirit go.

death-and-dying palliative-care healing medicine

Ursula K. Le Guin

37aa326

Si me convierto sera porque es preferible que muera un creyente a que lo haga un ateo.

death-and-dying religion

Christopher Hitchens

69be5de

Ya me sobrara tiempo para descansar cuando me muera, pero esta eventualidad no esta todavia en mis proyectos.

death-and-dying life

Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

d8423bb

The courage to continue before the face of despair is the recognition in those eyes of darkness we find our own night vision. Women blessed with death-eyes are fearless.

death-and-dying feminism women fear fearless despair

Terry Tempest Williams

ad7ba8c

Jason smiled. The sound of wings was louder now, the fluttering of angels come to carry him home.

death-and-dying war civil-war

Robert Ferrigno

5669701

N'aie pas peur de mes paroles: une morte ne veut plus rien, elle ne veut ni amour, ni pitie, ni reconfort.

death-and-dying

Stefan Zweig

1b3fcf1

"She died in my arms saying, "I don't want to die." That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we could never have war anymore."

death-and-dying war

Jonathan Safran Foer

ce1869b

It was something he had never quite understood about himself. He had seen thousands of men die in nearly ten years of war and could look on it at times with a near-total detachment, but an animal suffering - be it a horse or needra injured in battle, or the stag now dying - moved him deeply.

death-and-dying

Raymond E. Feist

ce4e282

Death was a lens that would reveal things as they really were: what was important would assume its true importance; what was unimportant would recede into the shadows.

death-and-dying inspiration

Robert Hellenga

e9d20d5

We didn't want to be reminded of how little we counted, how quickly, simply, and anonymously death came. Even though my reason wanted the state of death, I was afraid like a virgin of the act. I would have liked death to come with due warning, so that I could prepare myself. For what? I didn't know, nor how, except by taking a look around at the little I would be leaving.

death-and-dying

Graham Greene

2dc7704

"Terminado el entierro, por fin podria llorar.

death-and-dying

Diane Setterfield

f4612d6

Death is a vast mystery, but there are two things we can layabout it: It is absolutely certain that we will die, and it is uncertain when or how we will die. The only surety we have, then, is this uncertainty about the hour of our death, which we seize on as the excuse to postpone facing death directly. We are like children who cover their eyes in a game of hide-and-seek and think that no one can see them.

death-and-dying end-of-life death-quotes

Sogyal Rinpoche