Die With Dignity Quotes

#1. True courage knows fear. It knows how to fear that which should be feared. Honest people value life passionately, they hang on to it like a precious jewel. And they pick the right time and place to surrender it, to die with dignity.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#2. Not the wish to die with dignity but the desire to have died

Christopher Hitchens

#3. An African who loses the ability to die with dignity is a lost man.

Henning Mankell

#4. Today, elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society ... the right to life means allowing people to live and not killing, allowing them to grow, to eat, to be educated, to be healed, and to be permitted to die with dignity.

Pope Francis

#5. To die with dignity does not require company

Jon Lee Anderson

#6. Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

Marya Mannes

#7. I hope to die with dignity and not be on my death bed pondering the afterlife wearing a diaper named Depends.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#8. I know my destiny is moksh or liberation. I will not die for money or success. I am satisfied living the life I am leading, and I will die with dignity.

Sonu Nigam

#9. Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven's mouth.

Aberjhani

#10. To be acknowledged for who and what I am, no more, no less. Not for acclaim, not for approval, but, the simple truth of that recognition. This has been the elemental drive of my existence, and it must be achieved, if I am to live or die with dignity.

Robin Williams

#11. We live in a world where you can walk into a bookstore and get a how-to guide on just about anything. But no one tells you how to die with dignity. No one tells you how to go out like the winner.

Andrew Levitas

#12. Enjoy life. Have fun. Be kind. Have worth. Have friends. Be honest. Laugh. Die with dignity. Make the most of it. It's all we've got.

Ricky Gervais

#13. You politicians make me sick with your heroics!
How to die with valor. How to die with dignity.

When you should be learning: how to live like a human being.

Nathan Toulane

#14. I'm not Sisyphus trying to restrain death. Illyria is a soldier. If it's her time, it's her time. I'm not at war with Atropos. It's her will to take us whenever she likes. My only goal is to die with dignity. (Stryker)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#15. What are you, a baby? Jeez, if you're going to kill humans, the least you could do is learn to die with some dignity. (Wulf)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#16. he carried out these traits until the very end, even when he knew the war was unwinnable. And that's about all any of us can really hope for, to die with our dignity, to die with honor and valor.

Pittacus Lore

#17. All other societies die finally and with dignity. We die daily. We are always being born again with almost indecent obstetrics.

G.K. Chesterton

#18. It so often happens that, when men are convinced that they have to die, a desire to bear themselves well and to leave life's stage with dignity conquers all other sensations.

Winston Churchill

#19. The potential biographies of those who die young possess the mystic dignity of a headless statue, the poetry of enigmatic passages in an unfinished or mutilated manuscript, unburdened with contrived or banal endings.

Anthony Powell

#20. Can't you at least die with a little dignity?

Jerry Seinfeld

#21. To have control of my own mind ... to go with dignity is less terryfying. When I look at both options I have to die, I feel this is far more humane.

Brittany Maynard

#22. And that's about all any of us can really hope for, to die with our dignity, to die with honor and valor. To die knowing we did everything we could.

Pittacus Lore

#23. Every woman deserves the simple dignity of dying in a bed with clean sheets and an electric light at hand.'
-spoken by Sara, the missionary doctor, during a moment of indignation.

Joe Niemczura

#24. I'm going to die, he said aloud
and yawned. He felt no relief, no despair, no fear. The moment of his end would not grant him even the dignity of seriousness. It was an anonymous moment; a few minutes ago, he had held a toothbrush in that hand; now he held a gun with the same casual indifference.

Ayn Rand

#25. But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect.

Huey Newton

#26. I'm through begging for mercy. No one heeds it when I do anyway. Better I should die on my feet with all the dignity a whore can manage than crawling on my belly like a worthless slave. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#27. I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished.

Djuna Barnes

#28. From what I've seen, a girl's got to behave like a mental midget before she'll get any action in this town. If resisting that makes me a freak, so be it. I may die with my hymen intact, but at least I'll have my dignity" ~ Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty

Jody Gehrman

#29. The test of courage is not to die but to live. And live with dignity and conviction every single day.' He

Kavita Kane

#30. In a world where very few people care if you live or die, there is a light that shines in the distance. It has a name that they call hope and it carries with it people that never stop caring. They learned long ago that extending mercy was not a choice, but a place where God lives.

Shannon L. Alder

#31. What I've loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You've broken it with a word, so I must die.

Alexandre Dumas