Dying Well Quotes

Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

no one dies happy, you can only die well

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not courting it, either. If you have lived well, it is the fair conclusion to life.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

I want to be happy, to look back and feel I danced well at the end of my career and didn't dwindle off. It would be too sad.

Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is to die well.

I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

It's a wonderful way to live, and not a bad way to go, either. The average Frenchman is still smiling three months after he's dead.

Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death--what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.

And remember, that is the criterion. If a person can enjoy and celebrate his death, that shows he has lived rightly; there is no other criterion. Your death will prove how you have lived.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

If you're going to die on 'Game of Thrones,' you have to die well, haven't you?

If I drop dead tomorrow, at least I’ll know I died in good health.

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

Live well, Ichigo. Live well, age well, go bald well, and die after me. And... if you can, die smiling.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to living, you will not be able to die well. You must begin to shift gears, a little at a time. Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.

Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.

And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.

Even if you're going to die, you might as well die pretty.

Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.