Louise Hay Quotes

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.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

I love to think that the day you're born, you're given the world as a birthday present.

In this society, we don't like to face the future and the dying process and all of it. Most of us really don't want to think about it, but it's facing me in the mirror every day.

I think you die the way you live.

I don't think I've ever been particularly scared of death - but scared of dying, the process. It doesn't seem to be a good way of doing it.

For death, Now I know, is that first breath Which our souls draw when we enter Life, which is of all life center.

When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and less alive until finally they are gone.

I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice.

Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is cause for celebration, death has become a dreaded and unspeakable issue to be avoided by every means possible in our modern society. Perhaps it is that.

. . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 'twere a careless trifle.

It used to be I thought of death as a man something like Grandfather a friend of his a kind of private and particular friend like we used to think of Grandfather's desk not to touch it not even to talk loud in the room where it was.

It is foolish to be afraid of death. Just think. No more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living.

There's a cliff at the end point of a person's life; most us of peer over the edge of it, hanging on. That's why, when someone chooses to let go, it's so dramatically visible. The body will seem almost transparent. The eys will be looking at something the rest of us can't see.

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

Does it hurt?" The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could stop it. "Dying? Not at all," said Sirius. "Quicker and easier than falling asleep.

Dying isn’t like living; it requires no effort at all.

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.

I love life more than I love death.

She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on the subject. People were either too young or too old, or else they didn't have time.

Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.

Death is a withdrawal of consciousness. It's like taking attention from here and putting it there.

I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door.

Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is to die well.