Quotes about Death and dying

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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
[HAMILTON]I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory — Lin-Manuel Miranda
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 — Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death. — Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf g — Julian Barnes, Arthur & George
I am not ready to die,But I am learning to trust deathAs I have trusted life.I am movingToward a new freedom — May Sarton, Selected Poems
What is it that dies? A log of wood dies to become a few planks. The planks die to become a chair. The chair dies to bec — Swami Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras
We are all dying one by one. We all smell of mortality, and we can't wash it off. — Siri Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men
Heaven is a place where all the dogs you've ever loved come to greet you. — Oliver Gaspirtz, Pet Humor!
Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture). — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
She was made mostly of coffee and empty spaces. — Adelise M. Cullens, Dead Bunnies Make All Eight Of Me Cry
Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from — Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes
I wonder if my first breath was as soul-stirring to my mother as her last breath was to me. – From 14 Days: A Mother, A — Lisa Goich
Death’s life should have listened to the moonly whispers of breathing in the coldest nights — Munia Khan
This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with — Jacob M. Appel, Phoning Home
Instead, I opened my eyes to find the thing in front of my face, wafting dead horse breath across my chin and up my nose — Shannon Celebi, 1:32 P.M.
I have a theory that as human beings get older, chemicals are released into the brain to prepare us for the end. Sort of — Kris D'Agostino, The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac
I think she might at least have waited till the funeral was over,' said Amanda in a scandalized voice.'It's her own fune — Saki, The Complete Saki
Smrt je preseljenje iz kuće u kuću. To nije nestanak već drugo rođenje. Kao što prsne ljuska jajeta kad se pile potpuno — Meša Selimović, Death and the Dervish
... [They] took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us — Diane Setterfield