Nancy Astor Quotes

I was with a friend of mine recently who was dying and while he was lying there with his family around his bed, I just knew that was it, that was the best you can hope for in life - to have your family and the people who love you around you at the end.

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

A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.

I used to not want to die in any way but in my sleep when I was a young man. I'd like to die awake now, if possible, with people around me who love me.

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

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.

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

One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.

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 think you die the way you live.

"I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)

A dying man can do nothing easy.

The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

Many, if not most, Americans can imagine a fate worse than death, and it is a seemingly interminable process of dying. For them, it is frightening that politicians can find ways to interject themselves into this sad process.

As far as he knew, I was dying.

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

I am now face to face with dying. But I am not finished with living.

We'll need to make a litter to carry him," said Osha. "No use," said Luwin. "I'm dying, woman." "You can't," said Rickon angrily. "No you can't." Beside him, Shaggydog bared his teeth and growled. The maester smiled. "Hush now, child, I'm much older than you. I can . . . die as I please.

Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.

There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead.

Life is a long agonized illness only curable by death.

They say that when you're about to die, your life flashes before your eyes. They never tell you that when you watch someone you once loved dying, hovering between this life and the next, it's twice as painful, because you're reliving two lives that traveled one road together.