Deathbed Scene Quotes

When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.

I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.

I was with my dad 20 years ago as he was dying. I was there at the moment of his death, and I kept wondering the whole while what it must feel like from his point of view to still be there thinking, hearing all that was going on as people came and went, and life continued all around him.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I've - if it did occur - that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die.

The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe's house because Mam' Grace was slipping away, only I didn't register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday.

I'll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America.

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.