Dying Well Quotes

• The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

  Epicurus

  Death, Art, Philosophical

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Codice Trivulziano 281

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• A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Motivational, Happy, Death

  Codice Trivulziano 281

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• Dying well is easy,it only takes a moment of courage. It’s living well that I couldn’t do. What’s death compared to that.

  Brent Weeks

  Dying, Moments, Easy

  Brent Weeks (2009). “The Way Of Shadows: Book 1 of the Night Angel”, p.403, Hachette UK

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• If it's peace you find in dying, well then let the time be near.

  Laura Nyro

  Death, Dying, Wells

  Song: And When I Die

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• Dying well is part of living well and one day our society will surely recognize that. But I suppose we'll only know that we've reached that promised land on the day that the President of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society begins his address to the Annual General Meeting with the words: 'Tremendous news for the society. It's been our most successful year ever. So successful, indeed, that we now have no members at all.

  Victor Lewis-Smith

  Successful, Years, Land

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• I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, "Do not weep for me, This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country - I now go back there, I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn."

  Walt Whitman

  Death, Country, People

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.125, St. Martin's Press

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