John Donne Quotes

People always speak beautifully when they are in love or close to death.

. . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

Literature has become my life.

I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.

I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.

May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.

I'm not really obsessed with death.

Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any.

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

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

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 thought, 'If I'm going to die, I'm going to videotape it.' So I got out my little video recorder and was taping goodbyes to my family.

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

There's no happy time to die, but if I had a choice, I'd die doing the thing I loved.

In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the world. I would say that much on the subject with my last breath.

I'm going now. My time has come.

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.

I will die here where I have walked. And I will walk here, though I am in my grave. I will walk here until the pride of this house is humbled.

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.

Severn - I - lift me up - I am dying - I shall die easy; don't be frightened - be firm, and thank God it has come.