George Orwell Quotes

I don't dwell on it. But I guess everybody hopes that they go in their sleep and that it won't be long and painful.

Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die.

A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.

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

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.

Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.

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

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.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

I’m ready to die. I hope it’s not too uncomfortable.

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 seems like people are just dropping off the Earth. I suppose that happens when you get older. It's part of life. No one's getting out of it.

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.

Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.

It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.

When Death doth close his tender dying eyes.

The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

At the end of your life, you're lucky if you die.

Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.

I will go to my grave seeing the look on your face at the last. Keep it up and you'll go sooner than later.

Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.

If I die, what a beautiful death.