“ When you live with a potentially life-threatening condition you get used to the thought of dying. You accept it, you push on. The thing that scared me was the picture of dying slowly and painfully, th… Josh Lanyon
“ Which do you hate more: breaking your word or dying?""I don't know. I've never done either. Gerald Morris
“ I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence. John Keats
“ GPs are almost the only doctors these days who understand all problems, can see the whole person…spend time with the dying…see things through to the end. Jane Wilson-Howarth
“ The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I'm not. I'm only afraid of dying wrong. Ally Condie
“ When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us. Lauren DeStefano
“ ...[we] has left nothing durable to signalize his stay upon this planet.[we]eventually dies to the honest regret of [our] associates. James Branch Cabell
“ My father was a doctor,' she says, 'a very kind man. He died in the early '70s, relatively young.' She taps the cigarette packet on the table. 'Of lung cancer.''Oh.''But the thing about that is,' she… Anna Funder
“ Though I had no respect for Jack Lewis, I respected the hole in his chest. He was dying, and you owe the dying your attention. Carsten Jensen
“ I hate my left hand. I hate to look at it. I hate it when it stutters and trembles and reminds me that my identity is gone. But I look at it anyway; because it also reminds me that I'm going to find t… Katja Millay
“ I know I'm not supposed to argue with you when you talk about dying. And yes, you could die, Neil. But I could get hit by a bus and die tomorrow. Either we need to live every single day together like… Abigail Barnette
“ The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone who knows they can really die at any time and someone who doesn't. Jo Walton
“ I told my mother he looked like a deflated balloon. Greta said he looked like a small gray moth wrapped in a spider's web. That's because everything about Greta is more beautiful, even the way she say… Carol Rifka Brunt
“ We must be willing to accept the bitter truth that, in the end, we may have to become a burden to those who love us. But it is necessary that we face this also. The full acceptance of our abjection an… Thomas Merton
“ There are no stars, no moon, only knots, only the promise of death. Drums cry out in the abyss and then fade with everything else. Even the shadows fade and all that is left is death. We are all dead,… Courtney M. Privett
