Dying Quotes - Page 2

Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.

Death is known only through dying and truth is known only through diving deep within oneself.

To be able to die consciously, we need to prepare for death while we are still living.

Only a meditator is able to die consciously as life is an opportunity to prepare for death. Meditation is a death, a death of the ego.

Nobody wants to believe that existence carries on without at least taking a stumble from their departure of this world.

If you want you can die any way you want, but no matter how much you try you cannot live the way you want.

The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?

He wanted to die. He prayed for it. Through the roar in his ears, he begged for it.

It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being some natural force propelling life on. Is it selfish? Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.

But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.

What happens if a car comes?
We die.

I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.

Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.

You can't just make me different and then leave

One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies.

“They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die.

Girls are always saying things like, “I’m so unhappy that I’m going to overdose on aspirin,” but they’d be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blood, they panic.

After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled.

When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.

When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.