Dying Love Quotes:

Ay, but to die, and go we know not where.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 114

topic: Death, Dying Love, Measure For Measure, Someone Dying, Obstruction

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

topic: Love, Death, Dream, Dying Love, Flare

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

- Richard Bach

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Someone Dying, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

topic: Change, Grief, Learning, Way In Life, Empowering Women

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

- Dion Boucicault

source: 'London Assurance' (1841) act 2, sc. 1.

topic: Time, Men, Killing, Life's Too Short, Someone Dying

Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Home, Grieving, Unbroken, Inspirational Grief, Inspirational Grieving

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

- Ashley Montagu

topic: Death, Ideas, Young, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.58

topic: Relationship, Sympathy, Spiritual, Make You Cry, Someone Dying

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Death, Humorous, Profound, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

- Edvard Munch

source: "Sustainable Landscape Construction: A Guide to Green Building Outdoors". Book by William Thompson and Kim Sorvig, p. 30, 2007.

topic: Death, Flower, I Hate You, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

- Susan Ertz

source: Anger in the Sky ch. 5 (1943)

topic: Inspirational, Sunday, Long, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Inspirational, Death, Courage, Someone Dying, Meaningful Death

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Sympathy, Missing You, Death, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

topic: Inspirational, Death, Faith, Someone Dying, Kings Speech

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

- Andrew Sachs

topic: Death, Life Death, Someone Dying, Inspirational Grieving, Memorial For Loved One

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

- Giovanni Falcone

topic: Death, Fear Of Death, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying, Dealing With Death

Everyone dies but not everyone lives.

- William Wallace

topic: Someone Dying, Inspirational Grieving, Memorial For Loved One, Death Anniversary, Death Remembrance

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.

- John Muir

topic: Life, Beautiful, Death, Beautiful Nature, Meadows

Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead?

- J. D. Salinger

topic: Death, Hope, Flower, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

- Marcel Proust

topic: Death, Connections, Afternoon, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Death, Children, Fear, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

- Miguel de Unamuno

topic: Death, Men, Darkness, Cold Heart, Dying Love

Do not seek death. Death will find you.

- Dag Hammarskjold

source: "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

topic: Someone Dying, Meaningful Death, Death And Dying, Fulfillment In Life, Death Comfort

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

- Tennessee Williams

topic: Death, Time, Dying, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

Only the young die good.

- Oliver Herford

source: Oliver Herford (2014). “The Complete Cynic”, p.22, BookRix

topic: Death, Dying, Young, Die Young, Dying Love

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

- Joseph Hall

source: Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Practical works”, p.175

topic: Death, Dying, Borders, Someone Dying, Death And Dying

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Life, Death, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying, Italian Renaissance

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

- Jim Butcher

source: Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.997, Penguin

topic: Bible, Shadow Of Death, Death Of A Loved One, Valley Of Death, Someone Dying

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

- Walter Scott

topic: Death, Sleep, Loss, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

- James Thurber

topic: Dog, Nature, Animal, I Love My Dog, Labrador Dogs

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Death, Dream, Sleep, Someone Dying, Dealing With Death

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

- Alice Walker

topic: Death, Inspirational Life, Believe, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

- Jean Cocteau

source: "Postambule". "La Fin du Potomac". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1939.

topic: Death, Ugly Things, Dying, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

- Francis Bacon

source: Essays "Of Death" (1625)

topic: Death, Fear, Children, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

- Robert Bolt

source: "A Man For All Seasons (Act II)". Play by Robert Bolt based on the life of Sir Thomas More, July 1, 1960.

topic: Birthday, Death, Dying, Dying Love

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

- Miguel de Unamuno

topic: Love, Birthday, Death, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

- Lord Byron

topic: Love, Life, Dying, Value Of Life, Life Is Not Worth Living

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

- George Carlin

topic: Funny, Death, Long, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

- William Penn

topic: Sympathy, Death, Time, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Condolences

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

- Dag Hammarskjold

topic: Death, Funeral, Dying, Someone Dying, Meaningful Death

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Death, Suicide, Suicidal, Someone Dying, Dying Death

In the long run we are all dead.

- John Maynard Keynes

topic: Funny, Death, Running, Someone Dying, Current Affairs

Lord, send Your life throughout the entire church. Visit Your church; restore sound doctrine and holy, earnest living. Take away from professing Christians their love of frivolities, their attempts to meet the world on it's own ground, and give back the old love of the doctrines of the Cross and Christ. May free grace and dying love again be the music that refreshes the church and makes her heart exceeding glad.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Christian, Heart, Giving, Sound Doctrine, Dying Love

To some Christians today, this world is not a sinking ship or a world reserved for fire. It is an international capitol building overrun with undesirables whom these believers plan to kick out. They will then take their place, renovating and governing it all themselves. Such thinking is symptomatic of a dying love for Jesus and a clinging to this world!

- David Wilkerson

topic: Christian, Jesus, Thinking, Capitol, Dying Love