Jill McCorkle Quotes

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

I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.

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.

Anna Deavere Smith's new one-woman show bills itself as being about health care, but the truth is that 'Let Me Down Easy' is mostly about the grimmer subject of death and dying.

Have you ever thought about those last moments of your life? Nobody wants a long, lingering illness; nobody wants just that; but it would be nice if you could have a day or two where you know it's coming.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.

I am scared of death.

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.

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.

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

For the living, death is thievery.

Low on his funeral couch he lies!

Why do dying people never shed tears?

Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.

And then his noise falls completely silent- And he stops struggling- And looking right into my eyes- He dies. My Todd dies.

Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.

Death is a fearful thing.

Death belongs to the dying and those who love them.

This has been harder for my friends. I know I'm going to die.

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

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths.