Quotes About Knowing You Are Dying

#1. But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.

Samuel Beckett

#2. You think just knowing about death will keep you from dying?

Richard Bachman

#3. Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. ("Death Ship")

Richard Matheson

#4. Many times Christians state their love for the Lord and their willingness to die for Him. I will make no pretense of knowing the Lord's will in your life, but I do feel that in most cases the Lord is far more interested in our living for Him than He is in our dying for Him.

Zig Ziglar

#5. I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That's what I want to explore. We're all hurtling towards death, yet here we are for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing we're going to die, each of us secretly believing we won't.

Charlie Kaufman

#6. I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me.

Yusuf Hamied

#7. Sometimes, I don't know that words for things,
how to write down the feeling of knowing
that every dying person leaves something behind.

Jacqueline Woodson

#8. Real life is so secret that not even I, who am dying of it, have been given the password, I am dying without knowing of what.

Clarice Lispector

#9. I would have to learn to live in a different way, seeing death as an imposing itinerant visitor but knowing that even if I'm dying, until I actually die, I am still living.

Paul Kalanithi

#10. Only by a frank discussion of the very details of dying can we best deal with those aspects that frighten us the most. It is by knowing the truth ... that we rid ourselves of that fear of the terra incognita of death.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#11. That is to say, things have a way of getting worse and worse all the time, until in the end they get so bad that we lack even the means of knowing how bad they really are.

Robert Silverberg

#12. California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks.

S.E. Hinton

#13. Knowing about reincarnation helps us relax. It assists us with an understanding of death and dying. Death is not an end, quite the contrary.

Frederick Lenz

#14. In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?

Joan Halifax

#15. I had heard the wind from the mountains calling me last night, telling me it was my time to go, and I woke up, knowing what to do.

V.C. Andrews

#16. I hope you fall in love with someone nice and have a good marriage. I might end up dying without knowing what it's like to be in love.

Koushun Takami

#17. I have a fear of dying partway through a book - of never knowing the ending. It's silly, I know, but it makes me a quick reader.

Steve Robinson

#18. Dying without really living. Leaving this world knowing that the girl who makes me want to live the most-will have to do it without me

Rachel Van Dyken

#19. If I Must Go
If I must go to heaven's end
Climbing the ages like a stair,
Be near me and forever bend
With the same eyes above me there;
Time will fly past us like leaves flying,
We shall not heed, for we shall be
Beyond living, beyond dying,
Knowing and known unchangeably.

Sara Teasdale

#20. One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

Morris West

#21. From our birth we are all dying, but some of us finish sooner than others.

Raymond E. Feist

#22. Without intending to, without even knowing it, he demonstrated with his life that his father had been right when he repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager so lucid or dangerous, than a poet.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#23. Losing a family member, and her dying knowing she didn't have to die, that ... is a scar that will last forever for the people remaining, and even with good actions and good words, that scar will never disappear. Ever.

Kim Du-han

#24. I said, "I just want to know you and then disappear."
She said, "Knowing me does not mean dying.

Rumi

#25. I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they're dying; and to keep enemies of God from remembering that they're enemies.

A.W. Tozer

#26. One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.

Christopher Hitchens

#27. Griff held his breath, waiting for it, knowing the axe would fall and he'd start dying as soon as he walked out the fucking door, and Dante would just grin and joke and try to forget what they had done together in this room.

Damon Suede

#28. Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.

Douglas MacArthur

#29. I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow,
and somehow, each of us will help the other live,
and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.

Adrienne Rich

#30. Don't you believe it. I'll tell you what life is. It's gaol, it's not knowing where to get some money. Worms and cataract, cancer. You hear 'em shrieking from the upper windows- children being born. It's dying slowly.

Graham Greene

#31. You said that the mind is like the wind, but perhaps it is we who are like the wind. Knowing nothing, simply blowing through. Never aging, never dying.

Haruki Murakami

#32. Well, we're all dying in increments. I don't mind people knowing what I look like, but I don't want them thinking I'm dying.

Roger Ebert

#33. Some days in the camp you prayed to live; some days you prayed to die quick. Some days you didn't bother praying, knowing there was no sense to anything.

Allan Dare Pearce

#34. But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy.

Francine Pascal