Only a meditator is able to die consciously as life is an opportunity to prepare for death. Meditation is a death, a death of the ego.

You can walk into your room after walking out through the door, but you cannot come out of your grave after being buried into the soil.

How ironic, she thought, as she fell to her certain death, that at that moment she would have given anything to be a giant goose again.

Je to nějaký podezřelý. Všichni z FCI si to šinou do kytek. No co je? Četla jsem Hvězdy.

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

The only thing your life teaches you is how to live your life. And that’s only if you’re very lucky. And you listen very hard.

I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of a cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.

The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs.

Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?'...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at their heels.

I was too sad to watch her dying, so I shot her. I couldn’t bear the pain of watching her go slowly like that, over the next 50 years.

I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never say, "Die!" Paltry, prudent hypocrites!

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and--what will perhaps make you wonder more--it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

A good death is a death in solidarity with others. To prepare ourselves for a good death, we must develop or deepen this sense of solidarity.

I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.

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