Nancy Gibbs Quotes

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

Death is an absolute marvel.

I'm terrified I'm about to die, or that all the people I love are about to die, every second of every day.

The thing about death is that it's honest.

Death belongs to the dying and those who love them.

Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.

I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.

I'm dying always.

No doubt many people have the feeling that to talk about death at all is, in effect, to conjure it up mentally, to bring it closer in such a way that one has to face up to the inevitability of one's own eventual demise. So, to spare ourselves this psychological trauma, we decide just to try to avoid the topic as much as possible.

Death is an art, you know.

Death is never polite, even when we expect it.

To me, death is dark, pain, grief.

It's unnatural to believe death usually has a beauty and a concordance and is usually a coming together of your life's work. It leads to frustration for the patient. And it leaves grieving families convinced they did something wrong.

Death is a monster; death is horrible.

Death is the ultimate disappointment

My life closed twice before its close

Death is the ultimate negative.

Birth was the death of him.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

I think because people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing at - I don't say a great pace, but it seems like people are dropping, and I think it's just making - there's a consciousness and there's sensitivity to it.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.