Someone Who Is Dying Quotes

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one’s own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Boy, when you’re dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you’re dead?

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.