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...

What happens if a car comes? We die.

Haven’t you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you’re in the way, that you’re bothering the person next to you. If people don’t like it, they...

This was how I would die. Strangled by an attractive, seminaked woman inside a fridge with a giant tarantula in the middle of a sea of carnivorous jam. As I blacked out, all I could...

President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people, but if Iraqi people are dying in numbers, then American policy will be challenged very strongly.

Where ego comes in, loving kindness departs. So wherever there is ego, there is very little space for true bliss and true happiness because true bliss and true happiness isn’t exclusive to the attachments the...

Rather than you smoking a cigarette, the cigarette is really smoking you.

At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

I don’t feel so sad when somebody dies, Julio, because they fly away to explore the stars and planets. When it’s our turn we join them in exploring the universe.

When I die, I would love to die smiling. If however I forget this, I hope I have someone there to make me smile.

Families that feel together, heal together.

Everything is only a transition

If it had been a heart attack, the newspapermight have used the word massive,as if a mountain range had openedinside her, but insteadit used the word suddenly, a light coming onin an empty room. The...

It means, Day, that you’re dying.

Don’t risk your life for those that doesn’t love your life, lest you end up in regrets if not death.

Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages at cocktail parties, giving the user what he described as a...

I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It’s straightforward. But people almost never say, “Die!” Paltry, prudent hypocrites!

Who worries for dying? If I close my eyes tonight, I will either dream, or not, or my eyes will open and I will be here again. And if none of those happen, and I...

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and–what will perhaps make you wonder more–it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

Death is perfectly safe. (55)

My uncle’s dying wish – he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

I am not afraid to die; I am only afraid of saying goodbye to you forever.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can’t tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

Part of this experience involves your being able to say to a person who is dying, “You are loved. You are beautiful. You are like a newborn babe, going into another realm. Release now anyone,...

Dreams link us to those who have already left this life.

The whole world is dying. Just too slowly and naturally for my liking. Somebody should poison the food by genetically modifying it somehow. But even if that happened, nobody would be stupid enough to buy...

Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.

Which do you hate more: breaking your word or dying?””I don’t know. I’ve never done either.

Kao da ga je ugušila neizrečena rečenica”, rekao je neko kasnije, na sahrani ili, možda, u crkvi, dok su čekali sveštenika. (Kraj života)

I wanted to kill someone and I wanted to die and I wanted to run as far and as fast as I could because she was never coming back. She had fallen off the face...