Jayne Anne Phillips Quotes

Death is not painful. It is the most beautiful experience you will have.

Die - you will have to die. But die gracefully. I am not saying die like a stoic, I am not saying die like a very controlled man. No, I'm saying die gracefully, beautifully, as if a friend is coming, knocks at your door, and you are happy. And you embrace the friend and invite him in, and you have been waiting for him so long.

Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.

Death would not be called bad, o people, if one knew how to truly die.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I've - if it did occur - that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.

Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.

I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.

Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than 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.

For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.

Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.

I'm not scared of dyin', and I don't really care if it's peace you find in dyin'. Well then let the time be near. And when I die and when I'm gone there'll be one child born and a world to carry on.

Life is better than death. But death comes eventually to everyone. It is something which many in their prime may prefer not to think about. But at 89, I see no point in avoiding the question. What concerns me is: How do I go? Will the end comes swiftly, with a stroke in one of the coronary arteries? Or will it be a stroke in the mind that lays me out in bed for months, semi-comatose? Of the two, I prefer the quick one.

Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you've lived.

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death; the echo I created outlasted my last breath.

To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.

Why fear death? Death is only a beautiful adventure.

So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.

I am going to die. But I am going to die in peace because I lived my life as intensely as I could.

None of us can choose the manner of our passing.