Death and Dying Quotes

We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.

Many of the young people living in inner-city America don't see themselves - I mean, they even talk about things like death and dying. And there's a tremendous loss of hope. And of all the things to lose, I think nothing is worse or more difficult to overcome than the loss of hope.

I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called to travel some 250,000 miles each year to hold workshops that helped people cope with the most painful aspects of life, death and the transition between the two.

When I was young, I used to think that everyone should die at 70.

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

I sit with people who are dying. I'm one of those unusual types that enjoys being with someone when they're dying because I know I am going to be in the presence of Truth.

'Incurable' is a tough word. So is 'terminal.'

Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.

You have to learn to do everything, even to die.

Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

Life is stressful,dear. That's why they say "rest in peace.

I don’t know. We’ll all be dead.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

They teach you how to handle life in England, but they don’t teach you a thing about death. There’s no book telling you what to do when your mum or dad dies.

You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible.

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.

One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.

Dying is not easy. It's a very hard transition.

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.

It was not until after the coming of Christ that time and humans could breathe freely. It was not until after him that people began to live toward the future. Humans do not die in a ditch like a dog-but at home in history, while the work toward the conquest of death is in full swing; they die sharing in this work.