May you find comfort and peace in every situation.

I know a little of living and a little of dying. I know how to survive, i have mastered it as a soldier gains mastery of his weapons. Yet i prefer dying, for in dying...

From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.

Are we adequately prepared? … No. We do not yet have a vaccine ready to go. If the pandemic happened next week, the public would be outraged that we waited and ignored the concerns and...

I told my mother he looked like a deflated balloon. Greta said he looked like a small gray moth wrapped in a spider’s web. That’s because everything about Greta is more beautiful, even the way...

The merciful Providence – or whatever power there is in the universe – has so ordained things that our little world will go on without us. Indeed, it will not miss us for long. It...

Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face – the face of the child, the boy, the young man, the not-so-young man – all present still, preserved like fossils on...

Dying was misery. Death was that period at the end of the sentence.

I know there’s no heaven. I know it all turns to nothingness. But I fear there will be some remnant of me left within that void. Left conscious by some random fluke. Something that will...

Holy Dying”, extract from chapter IV.I (The Practice of Patience) para 5.

Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living...

Only the dying know what real loneliness is.

I don’t want–to go–I don’t want–to leave you–Eden–

Sex doesn’t satisfy for a lifetime, the more you have it, the more you want it. And the more you have it, the more you die out.

I want to tell them that almost dying is awfully easy. Its the living that’s hard.

Going insane would be worse than dying. At least death is clear and final

Prate not to me of suicide, Faint heart in battle, not for pride I say Endure, but that such end denied Makes welcomer yet the death that’s to be died.

There is no reason for a sound faith to be irrational. A useful faith should not be blind, but should be well aware of its grounds. A sound faith should be able to use scientific...

Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?’…’Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at their heels.

I am not worried about dying, what I am worried about is not living

The circumstances of our lives are pieces of a larger scheme in the puzzle of life, and in His Perfect Wisdom, the pieces fit.

The best way to die is when your living

The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I’m not. I’m only afraid of dying wrong.

When the little mouse, which was loved as none other was in the mouse-world, got into a trap one night and with a shrill scream forfeited its life for the sight of the bacon, all...

After my first coaching experience, the field looked more like Gettysburg than a normal defeat. But it wasn’t that bad, as only about half my team lay dead, while the rest were merely dying.

In the midst of life we are in death,'” said Miss Ophelia.

He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh, just the barest traces of what had once been a life. His body...

I would not be dying if it were not for her. I would have stayed home, as I have always stayed home, and I would have been safe, and I would have done the one...

The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him – six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs.

Living is too hard right now. Dying is easy. Let me die.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

I make a new discovery that totally blows; dying is the easy part. It’s coming back to life that sucks.

Now she knew living was just a brief hiatus, a blip really, in the infinite line of nothingness that composed that shadowy realm of the unknown. It could stop at any time.

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

Dying’s easy. It’s living that’s hard.

When you die, you want to die a beautiful death. But what makes for a beautiful death is not always clear. To die without suffering, to die without causing trouble to others, to die leaving...

Satisfaction doesn’t come from needs and desires or fulfilling them, it comes from being yourself, being true.

Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.

It is a dreadful thing to wait and watch for the approach of death; to know that hope is gone, and recovery impossible; and to sit and count the dreary hours through long, long, nights...

Eventually our whole world, every culture, will explode and we’ll all just be fucking cosmic dust. We’ll all dissipate. We’ll all be nothing and everything. What’s more spiritual than that?

I don’t want to be dying. I want to be dead.

All but one of Zoe Pendergraft’s friends were dead.

I appreciate the beauty and balm of flowers but I have never enjoyed receiving them because then I have to watch them die, and worse…throw them away.

When you live with a potentially life-threatening condition you get used to the thought of dying. You accept it, you push on. The thing that scared me was the picture of dying slowly and painfully,...

Some people say dying alone is a fate worse than death itself. Well, they should try being alone during the living part sometimes. There’s no quicker way to make you wonder why the hell you...

No doubt my books too, like my mortal being, would eventually die, one day. But one has to resign oneself to dying. One accepts the thought that in ten years oneself, in a hundred years...

The one who lives the longest and the one who lives the shortest, when it comes to dying lose one and the same thing.

I hope I leave this world gracefully, like a pilgrim slips from the back of his donkey at the end of a long ride, like a traveler disembarks from an airplane that has carried him...