Howard Dietz Quotes

For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life.

I think I want to talk about life from the point of view of death.

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

You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.

Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.

I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.

Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark.

People's whole lives do pass in front of their eye before they die. The process is called "Living".

We need to be together." "Why?" I asked softly. The word was carried away on the wind, but he heard. "Because I want you." I gave him a sad smile, wondering if we'd meet again in the land of the dead. "Wrong answer," I told him. I let go

Death is never an ending, death is a change; Death is beautiful, for death is strange; Death is one dream out of another flowing.

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.' 'No.' 'It might be important.' 'It might make her die.

Death is the great transition.

All partings foreshadow the great final one.

The trees are white with dust, that o'er their sleep Wave their broad curtains in the south-wind's breath, While underneath such leafy tents they keep The long, mysterious Exodus of Death.

Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.

A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur.

Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.

Before the final curtain goes down On my life, I shall say to my Mother-Earth, "My gratitude-heart is all for you, All for you."

You do become more aware of your mortality as you get older. When you're little, you jump on any wild horse. Then you get a little bit older and realize how fragile life is, and you're more careful.

Death must be got through as life had been, just somehow.

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

Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.

What it must feel like, I thought, to look at something, anything really, and know that it’s for the last time?