Final Journey Quotes

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

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

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

The road to death is a lonely highway, and longer than it apears, even when it leads straight down from the scaffold, by way of a rope; and it's a dark road, with never any moon shining on it, to light your way.

End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path... One that we all must take.

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.

The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today. The wind will be soft and mellow and your hilltop will tremble. As you reach the end of your dance you will look at the sun, for you will never see it again in waking or in dreaming, and then your death will point to the south. To the vastness.

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.

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and yet we were profoundly separated from her.

Death is the separation of soul from body.

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

Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

Death at times seems like a dark tunnel to be traveled, and the future seems bleak.

Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

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

I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.

Death means you are in the third person.

I hope to die in the saddle seat.

I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.

Why, I am about doing very well, for I am preparing myself, sir, for a place where hardly any majors, and very few Lieutenant-Generals go. God save us, why should there be such a bustle about the taking off of an old grey head that cannot get up three steps without two men to support it?

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.

It is not that death comes, but that life leaves.