Emily Dickinson Quotes

Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Death is such a strange thing. One minute you're here and then just gone. You'd think there would be an anteroom, a place where you could be visited before you go.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

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

There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.

I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral.

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

death - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Death is an absolute marvel.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

I am dying, Egypt, dying.

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.