Ram Dass Quotes

I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called to travel some 250,000 miles each year to hold workshops that helped people cope with the most painful aspects of life, death and the transition between the two.

The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.

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

I sit with people who are dying. I'm one of those unusual types that enjoys being with someone when they're dying because I know I am going to be in the presence of Truth.

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

It's fashionable to speak about vulnerable populations in medicine and public policy, but it's harder to find a more vulnerable population than those who are 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.

I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.

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.

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.

Dying is not easy. It's a very hard transition.

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.

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

I began to think my time had come, as the saying is.

My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach.

I think because people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing at - I don't say a great pace, but it seems like people are dropping, and I think it's just making - there's a consciousness and there's sensitivity to it.

Let no man's deathbed be a futon.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.

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.

I am dying, Egypt, dying.

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

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