Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

I wrote a song called 'Here on Earth,' and the hook is, 'There's no answers here on earth.' Basically, searching for the 'why' when someone passes away, and I feel really fortunate that my dad lived as long as he did. But no matter what happens or how it happens, it's certainly a stinker.

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

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

When people tell you they saw your last picture - well, the way they say it sounds like they hope it was.

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.

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

I would hate the thought of dying full stop; I've got to be honest with you.

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

Death always seems to be around me.

Now you may write the eulogy for my funeral.

People live, people die. It's always hard when it's a member of your family.

The only thing that scares me is dying.

When anyone dies, it's sad.

I don't believe dying's a sad thing.

It seems like people are just dropping off the Earth. I suppose that happens when you get older. It's part of life. No one's getting out of it.

Feeling funny in my mind, Lord I believe I'm fixing to die Well, I don't mind dying But I hate to leave my children crying Well, I look over yonder to that burying ground Look over yonder to that burying ground Sure seems lonesome, Lord, when the sun goes down

His was the disease we couldn’t cure. His was the good-bye that meant the most

For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.

I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is nothing to grieve about. We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual: my mind is at rest. I leave no one to regret me much: I have only a father; and he is lately married, and will not miss me. By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault.

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying.

Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.