Quotes About Death

And, as is usually the fate with bands, most of them will break up—through distance, differences, divorce, or death.

You might say that is "too young" to die. But what is too young for a life?

Dying is only one thing to be sad about, Mitch. Living unhappily is something else"—

That's what we're all looking for. A certain peace with the idea of dying. If we know, in the end, that we can ultimately have that peace with dying, then we can finally do the really hard thing. Which is? Make peace with living.

Finally, on the fourth of November, when those he loved had left the room just for a moment—to grab coffee in the kitchen, the first time none of them were with him since the coma began—Morrie stopped breathing.

Dear friends. I'm dying. "Don't be upset. I began to die on July 6, 1917. That's the day I was born, and, in council with what our psalmist says, 'We who are born, are born to die.

Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

Dying," Morrie suddenly said, "is only one thing to be sad over, Mitch. Living unhappily is something else. So many of the people who come to visit me are unhappy.

We are, as we die, who we most were in life...

It's natural to die, he said again. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don't see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we're human we're something above nature. He smiled at the plant. We're not. Everything that gets born, dies.

When a colleague at Brandeis died suddenly of a heart attack, Morrie went to his funeral. He came home depressed. "What a waste," he said. "All those people saying those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it".

Did you ever wonder? Why people gather when others die? Why people feel they should? It is because the human spirit know, deep down, that all lives intersect.

the mystery of death is why it chooses a particular moment. With no earthly answer, coincidence can become conspiracy.

Al morir se pone fin a una vida, no a una relación personal.

it's natural to die...the fact that we make a big hullabaloo over it, is all because we don't see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we're human we're somethin above nature...we are not. Everything that gets born, dies.

Amazing, I thought. I worked in the news business. I covered stories where people died. I interviewed grieving family members. I even attended the funerals. I never cried. Morrie, for the suffering of people half a world away, was weeping. Is this what comes at the end, I wondered? Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.

I still don't understand, Eddie whispered. What good came from your death? You lived, the Blue Man answered. But we barely knew each other. I might as well have been a stranger....Strangers, the Blue Man said, are just family you have yet to come to know.

Death has a way of doing that. "The truth is, Mitch," he said, "once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

He had refused fancy clothes or makeup for this interview. His philosophy was that death should to be embarrassing; he was not about to powder its nose.

The truth is, Mitch," he said, "once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

philosophy was that death should not be embarrassing; he was not about to powder its nose.

Dying, Morrie suddenly said, is the only one thing to be sad over, Mitch. Living unhappily is something else. So many of the people who come to visit me are unhappy.

Is this what comes at the end, I wondered? Maybe death is the great equaliser, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.

I may be dying, but I am surrounded by loving, caring souls. How many people can say that?