John Green Quotes

In Khmer we have a saying that when one is both quite sick and old there remains only one thing, that you die.

I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'

I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.

I have seen many die, surrounded by loved ones, and their last words were ‘I love you.’ There were some who could no longer speak yet with their eyes and soft smile left behind that same healing message. I have been in rooms where those who were dying made it feel like sacred ground. (26)

Hell no. When I die I want to be sick.

for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.

Get ready to die, tell God I say hi.

Well, we're all dying in increments. I don't mind people knowing what I look like, but I don't want them thinking I'm dying.

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.

Death is a fact of life, no matter where you live. Taking care of the dying is a necessity everywhere. Those are not conditions exclusive to small towns.

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

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

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

I was with my dad 20 years ago as he was dying. I was there at the moment of his death, and I kept wondering the whole while what it must feel like from his point of view to still be there thinking, hearing all that was going on as people came and went, and life continued all around him.

Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.

You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?

My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.

You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

Dying people often become childish.

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

I think some people do want to die, and they will get a disease. There are people who know their lives are so troubled, and their bodies are getting them out of here.