dying peacefully Quotes

And one day, this thing happened to me: I coughed, and the blood just came gushing out of my mouth. ... I still can't believe that that happened to me, but I sat there, and I said to God, 'Well, if it means I'm going to die, that's OK.' I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

The thought of death sits easy on the man Who has been born and dies among the mountains.

I read in announcements of deaths 'peacefully in his sleep' and I wonder how many of those are true. Maybe they are just conventional. I hope they are true whenever I read it of someone. [But] I would rather be awake. Peacefully awake, brim full of some calming drug that was seeing me out of the door, having said my farewells.

As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I've - if it did occur - that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

i hope i die warmed by the life that i tried to live

To be content with death may be better than to desire it.

If I ever went, I'd want to go peacefully in my sleep. I wouldn't want to plan my own death.

In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I'd love to sit down and resolve every issue so I could go peacefully.

We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life's end, and preparing for it so that we may go gracefully and peacefully.

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

Did he die well?" No, I thought. Nobody did. They just died.

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

If I live the life I'm given, I won't be scared to die.

One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.