Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

The right time to die is never exactly now.

My father was in terrible pain towards the end because of his bed sores, and he did go into hospice, and I think that was better in some ways. You know, I think his death was peaceful, and it was all right. He was just in terrible pain.

Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies?

Many, if not most, Americans can imagine a fate worse than death, and it is a seemingly interminable process of dying. For them, it is frightening that politicians can find ways to interject themselves into this sad process.

This has been harder for my friends. I know I'm going to die.

Death is a very important part of life.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.

Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.

My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

It's fashionable to speak about vulnerable populations in medicine and public policy, but it's harder to find a more vulnerable population than those who are dying.

Wait for them to die

I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life.

We could keep his body going, but it was trying its hardest to die.

I would like to avoid dying if possible. I do like living! The worst, I think for me, though, would be a really bedridden death.

I don't want to die in pain or in an undignified way, I don't want any of the people I love to die in, die painfully. But I'm aware of the fact that they may die before I do and I have to part with them and take the loss. The hardest thing of love is to let go. But I think I can get let go of almost anybody.

When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.

In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases

There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.

I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.

It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.