Deathbed Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

...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.

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.

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