Dying Process Quotes

It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share. It is time to go.

Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing.

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

Death is not painful. It is the most beautiful experience you will have.

Live while you live, then die and be done with.

When a significant other - a spouse, a parent or someone you're close to - is dying, it forces you to think about your life, about what you feel about death. What I realized from my dad's dying was that I wasn't scared of dying. But I was terrified of regrets. I was terrified of getting to the end of my life with a lot of Why didn't I's.

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

You can't really live until you are no longer afraid to die.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

My mother, who was radiant, young, and beautiful even as she lay dying, heard voices and saw visions, but she always managed to make friends with them and was much too charming to hospitalize even at her craziest.

Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest... And of what consequence is it what kind of death puts an end to life, since he who has died once is not forced to go through the same ordeal a second time? They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

Death needs time for what it kills to grow in.

In the last stages of a final illness, we need only the absence of pain and the presence of family.

In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.

Death is death no matter how it is inflicted

I've been there for a couple of people when they were dying; it didn't look like fun. But if I was gonna do it, I'd want someone like me around. And I will be there!

He that lives most dies most.

When you see a parent pass, and you literally are there, and you're sitting at that deathbed, man, and you have to tell them to go, it defines life for what it really is.

By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

Granted that I must die, how shall I live?

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