Amber Valletta Quotes

Dying is not a crime.

A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.

When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies?

Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.

I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either.

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

Wait for them to die

Even when you're 22 and you feel immortal, you know in your heart you're not.

I don't want to die in pain or in an undignified way, I don't want any of the people I love to die in, die painfully. But I'm aware of the fact that they may die before I do and I have to part with them and take the loss. The hardest thing of love is to let go. But I think I can get let go of almost anybody.

You ask particularly after my health. I suppose that I have not many months to live; but, of course, I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.

I'm starting to get older, and began to think about mortality a little more. My mother died in 2003 and that was a big shock. When your parents start to die off, that's going to be a revelation. So for me, this album - although it might sound quite cheery - is really talking about death.

The right time to die is never exactly now.

I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.

It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.

Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left.

As one gets older, this question of death, becomes more vexing and urgent.

Why do dying people never shed tears?

"I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)

Every time someone in your life dies, you realize you're not invincible and you have to wonder if we're celebrating life or if we're mourning a death.

I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.