It kills me sometimes, how people die. —Markus Zusak More about this quote Tags: death irony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The dying must often feel this way — steaming along just fine, while on ahead someone has torn up the rails. —Annie Dillard More about this quote Tags: death feelings Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. —Voltaire More about this quote Tags: religion death animals theology funerals ceremony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As the day grew brighter, he grew dimmer, and more of his friends gathered around his bed. They took up their oars and rowed with him as far as they could. —Carrie Fisher More about this quote Tags: friends death darkness passage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so —Marcel Proust More about this quote Tags: time future perception death Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Wouldn't it be weird if the only way people could die was that their heads suddenly exploded without warning? If there was simply no other cause of death? One day you'd be sitting there having a hot chocolate, and suddenly your head would explode. —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: humor death explosions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As she lay dying, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour — the official chief mistress of Louis XV, King of France — summoned her last strength and called to God, "Wait a second," as she dabbed her cheeks with rouge. —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: beauty death vanity royalty France Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When it comes time to die, make sure all you got to do is die. —Jim Elliot More about this quote Tags: time death responsibility. peace Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For the Dargara people, death results in simply a different form of belonging to the community. It is a lesson . . . that change is the norm, that the world is defined by eternal cycles of decline and regeneration. . . . Death is not a separation but a different form of communion, a higher form of connectedness . . . providing an opportunity for even greater service. —Malidoma Somé More about this quote Tags: death connection community belonging regeneration reincarnation communion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I do not know the end of my living and the beginning of my dying, for they — living and dying — are both mixed up. —Jamaica Kincaid More about this quote Tags: living death beginning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My security against the inevitable is: the longer I live, the more dead people I know. —Helen M. Stump More about this quote Tags: death inevitability security Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As an individual, with your death there will be an end of you. But your individuality is not your true and final being, indeed it is rather the mere expression of it, . . . only the phenomenon presented in the form of time, and accordingly has both a beginning and an end. Your being in itself, on the contrary, knows neither time, nor beginning, nor end, nor the limits of a given individuality. . . . So that, in the first sense, after death you become nothing; in the second, you are and remain everything. —Arthur Schopenhauer More about this quote Tags: time death infinity individuality existentialism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently. —Mitch Albom in Tuesdays With Morrie More about this quote Tags: life death choices Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at? —Margaret Smith More about this quote Tags: death anger tombstone Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The pain-relieving ingredient — there's always got to be a lot of that. Nobody wants anything less than extra-strength. "Give me the maximum allowable human dosage. Figure out what will kill me, and then back it off a little bit. —Jerry Seinfeld More about this quote Tags: pain death drugs aspirin Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email