Quotes About Death

Angor animi - the sense of being in the act of dying, differing from the fear of death or the desire for death.

The only meaning of death is how I live my life now and what I will have to look back upon as I lie dying.

It used to be called angor animi – the anguish of the soul – the feeling that some people have, when they are having a heart attack, that they are about to die. Even now, more than thirty years later, I can see very clearly the dying man's despairing expression as he looked at me as I turned away.

ANGOR ANIMI n. the sense of being in the act of dying, differing from the fear of death or the desire for death.

No estábamos angustiados, pues los tres sabíamos que iba a morir, pero supongo que lo que sentíamos era sencillamente un amor intenso, un amor sin segundas intenciones, sin la vanidad y el interés de los que tan a menudo es expresión ese sentimiento.

My family were playing out an age-old scene that I suppose is rarely seen now in the modern world, where we die in impersonal hospitals or hospices, cared for by caring professionals, whose caring expressions (just like mine at work) will disappear off their faces as soon as they turn away, like the smiles of hotel receptionists.

Our fear of death is deeply ingrained. It has been said that our knowledge of our mortality is what distinguishes us from other animals, and is the motive force behind almost all human action and achievement.

Përpjekjet për vetëvrasje shihen shpesh, nga stafi i spitalit, me përbuzje e mospërfillje – dështim si në jetë dhe në vdekje dhe si mjete të fatkeqësisë vetjake

Në shtratin e vdekjes, shumë prej nesh do të mbajmë ende një fije shprese në një qoshk të mendjes dhe vetëm në çastin e fundit do kthejmë kokën mënjanë dhe do japim shpirt...

Një mjek i mirë duhet t'u flasë të dy qenieve kontradiktore brenda pacientit që po vdes – pjesës që e di që po vdes dhe asaj që shpreson se do të rrojë ende.

Actors die so loud.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Always knowing you're going to die And until then knowing you've got to live.

I wish I wasn't alive as much as you are dead

All bullshit and no death and mutilated assholes makes Jack a dull boy, dull and tense.

The mystery of death is not solved by dying just as the mystery of life is not solved by living .

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just!Shining nowhere but in the dark;What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust,Could man outlook that mark!

But the father answered never a word,A frozen corpse was he.

October is Nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life.... Every green thing loves to die in bright colors.

There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.