Dying Quotes

To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.

Life is uncertain; death is certain.

Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair; A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given; And death was safety and great joy to find; But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

To say that New York came up to its advance billing would be the baldest of understatements. Being there was like being in heaven without going to all the bother and expense of dying.

If not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it.

Ay, but to die, and go we know not where.

If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.

A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam figures: Hey, why not us?

The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers.

Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.

Between killing and dying there's a third way: live

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.

If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.

We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

Well, you may not know this, but there's things that gnaw at a man worse than dying.

Kids are dying from causes of sexual activity. You're not going to find a tombstone stating that Frankie died because he was a virgin.

I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.

The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.

Living in fear is just another way of dying before your time.

The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.

We just did an awesome job of not dying.

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

There were worse things than dying, and those worse things happened to the people you left behind.

I am going to seek a great Perhaps.

It's inspirational to see someone who is dying smile.

Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.

The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.

The fans are dying. We're dying.

The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standards a substitute for a purpose in living.

Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes.

It amazes me to witness the masochism with which some journalists characterize their industry as a dying species. The future belongs to citizen journalism and blogs.

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.

They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.

He who finds not opposition from sin, and who sets not himself in every particular to its mortification, is at peace with it, not dying to it.

"I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)

I thought about dying whenever I got bad news about other people.

That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying.

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.