Edmund White Quotes

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

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, everyone, everyone asks. And I'm so sick of it. But my true answer is, I don't know. And there's no way I'm going to find out 'til it happens.

As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'

The journey is over. Love to all.

At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It's just that simple.

I have miles to go before I sleep.

I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.

Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call it death), at midnight, will pass by, and will call us by name, and will say, "I have a message for you from home; God wants you; heaven waits for you.

Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.

Traveling is a constant arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained by going to sleep or dying.

Miles, as in 'to go before I sleep'?

My death is very near to me, and of this I am glad, for I desire to pursue the quest in other realms, as it has been promised to me that I shall do.

Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die.

Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.

Here's what happens when you die--you sit in a box and get eaten by worms. I guarantee you that when you die, nothing cool happens.

Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.

Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.

I guess that is what dying must be like; to be finished and to be able to look back at the struggles of life, and know that God was your constant companion.

So they pass away: friends, kindred, the dearest-loved, grown people, aged, infants. As we go on the down-hill journey, the mile-stones are grave-stones, and on each more and more names are written; unless haply you live beyond man's common age, when friends have dropped off, and, tottering, and feeble, and unpitied, you reach the terminus alone.

The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb