Last Moments Quotes

Dictators always look good until the last ten minutes.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

I've been there for a couple of people when they were dying; it didn't look like fun. But if I was gonna do it, I'd want someone like me around. And I will be there!

Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.

When you see a parent pass, and you literally are there, and you're sitting at that deathbed, man, and you have to tell them to go, it defines life for what it really is.

It was a lovely feeling, dying. I can remember being in the hospital, all wired up to tubes and thinking, 'If only you'd take these tubes out, it feels so nice.' It felt so - it felt like being in a bath of velvet. It was such a nice feeling. Everything felt so soft and floppy, and I wanted to go.

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

Go away. I'm all right. [last words]

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.

I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.

When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don’t know when you’ll see each other again, you can become logjammed with the effort to say and do and settle everything at once.

Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

It's a weird feeling when you know you're going to die.

Have you ever thought about those last moments of your life? Nobody wants a long, lingering illness; nobody wants just that; but it would be nice if you could have a day or two where you know it's coming.

I shall never send for a priest or recite an Act of Contrition in my last moments. I do not mind if I lose my soul for all eternity. If the kind of God exists Who would damn me for not working out a deal with Him, then that is unfortunate. I should not care to spend eternity in the company of such a person.

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad?

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

The last time I saw Dad alive, he was in the hospital. He was watching 'Hell Drivers,' a crummy B-movie about truckers, on TV and reading the 'Daily Record.' This seems scarcely believable, but I actually said, 'Dad, you've not got long to go - don't you think you should be imbibing the culture a bit more?'

I'm trying to surround myself during my life with the eight people I'd surround my bed with on my death.

When you're on your deathbed, you probably aren't counting the movies you've made.

The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.

I always look well when I'm near death.

It doesn't matter. What matters is that you're about to die.

I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.