Deathbed Quotes

Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."(Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

Voltaire

I love you. If you remember nothing else for the rest of your life, if you fall and hit your head and can’t remember my name, if you get so sick you’re unrecognizable, if you hate me, if you’re on your deathbed and can’t manage to even lift a finger — remember this. I. Love. You. Always. Forever. Eternally. Is that kind of love something you can handle, Saylor?

Rachel Van Dyken

...nothing more excruciating when you are fighting for your life than to have healthy people round you, squabbling over futilities. Who do you love best, and who most do you want with you? Blithering idiots: it's life itself, can't you see? It's life I love best, and life I want with me. Go hang yourselves, all of you, you're only sapping my strength when most I need it. Leave me in peace and let me grapple.

A.P.

It is a dreadful thing to wait and watch for the approach of death; to know that hope is gone, and recovery impossible; and to sit and count the dreary hours through long, long, nights - such nights as only watchers by the bed of sickness know. It chills the blood to hear the dearest secrets of the heart, the pent-up, hidden secrets of many years, poured forth by the unconscious helpless being before you; and to think how little the reserve, and cunning of a whole life will avail, when fever and delirium tear off the mask at last. Strange tales have been told in the wanderings of dying men; tales so full of guilt and crime, that those who stood by the sick person's couch have fled in horror and affright, lest they should be scared to madness by what they heard and saw; and many a wretch has died alone, raving of deeds, the very name of which, has driven the boldest man away.("The Drunkard's Death")

Charles Dickens

Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying?" (Seeing all her children assembled at her bedside in her last illness.)

Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor

The stony silence of death, trapped by the original gravity of our sins,and the perpetuity of a long, leisurely yawn, a world where blood and bone no longer matter.

Brian D'Ambrosio

We die a day at a time

Bangambiki Habyarimana

The world slides, the world goes, and death makes equal the rich and the poor

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens

Bangambiki Habyarimana

What would I have wanted to say if I had had the opportunity to see him one more time? I would like to think that I would have kept it simple and said, “I love you,” then just held his hand in silence, letting that thought linger in the space of the time we had left together.

Lisa J. Shultz

Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.(Applaud, my friends, the comedy is

Ludwig van Beethoven

When Olivier had been taken away Gamache had sat back down and stared at the sack. what could be worse than Chaos, Despair, War?What would even the Mountain flee from? Gamache had given it a lot of thought.What haunted people even, perhaps especially, on their deathbed? What chased them, tortured them and brought some of them to their knees? And Gamache thought he had the answer.Regret. Regret for things said, for things done, and not done. Regret for the people they might have been. And failed to be.Finally, when he was alone, the Chief Inspector had opened the sack and looking inside had realize he'd been wrong. The worst thing of all wasn't regret.

Louise Penny

It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confronting your own mortality

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Why when people are on their deathbed, they finally come to terms with life?

Anthony Liccione

I will miss myself in relation to others. The rareness. The exceptional differences. I will miss the gift that comes with hardship and paying the price. I will miss the tragedy of my own life. As I once spoke...emphatically, but I now repeat here, quietly—the pain, the pain is what made it so God damn beautiful. I endured. You can wait a lifetime for thirty seconds, five minutes, or for an hour to come into your life—a brief interval that makes all the suffering purposeful. In such moments of splendor and rapture—even if the rapture be stilled, the private hours and years of reckoning are unloaded, a burden lifted and the spirit feels as it did on the happiest day of its life when it was young and untormented Or rather, unconscious of the torment waiting to be ignited.

Wheston Chancellor Grove

What's the use in prolonging life if you don't do anything with it?

A.J. Darkholme

The older you get, the faster time passes in your mind, so use your time according to what is most important.

A.J. Darkholme

Love was holding someone's hand when you wanted to escape.

Krista Van Dolzer

The greatest loss is the loss of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

At the end of life, nobody knows where the spirit goes.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Life on earth is temporary. May we pursue peace and live in harmony with one another.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If you have few days to live your life, what will be your passion for last days?

Lailah Gifty Akita

I live nearby a graveyard, that's where I get all my inspiration for wisdom and life

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Despite our human intelligence, we are very much like our friends in the wild; the world we live in is a survival of the fittest. But to this I say, let the fittest survive! Survival is overrated. We’re alive; we die. How long we survive for is of little significance. Our true significance lies not in the endless comparing of ourselves to one another, trying to see who is the fittest, using scales of evaluation and meaning that differ in the heart and mind of every individual; no - it lies in our deeds alone with the time we have.

A.J. Darkholme

PartingOne is strong, a child now grownThe other weak, a parent aged-The strong once feebleThe weak once mighty-Time, the infinityhas marked them...

Muse

When you lose someone untimely; all left is never ending guilt, fear, and pain.

Nikita Dudani

Have I have played my part well in the comedy of life? If so, clap your hands and dismiss me from the stage with applause.

Augustus

No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic.

Thomas More

Dreams, just dreams, it's all illusion

Bangambiki Habyarimana

I fear death. I think I must learn to romanticize death so that I can cope with its brutal irreversible numbness...!

Lukhman Pambra

We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and create the afterlife.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

It's weird, all you think about when you're young is gaining your independence, but when those final hours come, people want to go home.

Kathryn Craft

On their deathbed men will speak true, they say.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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