Charles Hodge Quotes

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.

Sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

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

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.

To most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.

Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.

I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.

There's not a higher stake than someone having to face their own death.

We do have trouble dealing with death, but it's the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to do, and we are going to have to face it many times before we die ourselves.

Death belongs to the dying and those who love them.

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

I don't want to hear about my death.

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

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

I know that I am going to die, and I'm ready to do so.

It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Death is an art, you know.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

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.

It's a weird feeling when you know you're going to die.

Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.