Dying Quotes

How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)

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

Things have a terrible permanence when people die.

People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

Dying is the last thing I will ever do.

Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved.

And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Why was everyone dying? They had all been so alive just yesterday.

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.

I am dying of hunger.

Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you've lived.

[When] you're dying laughing because your three-year-old made a fart joke, it doesn't matter what else is going on. That's real happiness.

One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.

I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

The lion-as proud as the diamond bright, Though the spell may be clouding that radiant light-in the death of the sun what's amiss will then mend, while the raven is dying discloses the end.

[I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that would be rather a conundrum.

Life death all does end and each day dies with sleep.

Come my little one, and give me your hand.

I work out. I'm getting toned, too. The Wii Fit really works your body. When I get off, I'm dying.

Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying.

This time it will be a long one.

Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.

Nothing is more vintage than dying of Rubella.

The spectator is a dying animal.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

It's a strange thing now how people will know they're dying themselves when no one else could suspect anything wrong at all with them.

I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.

Everyday hundreds of people came to the hospital... dying, and I have to introduce life into them again... my duty was to compete with death.

The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.

Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in

It hurts, it hurts... Im dying, I'm dying.

Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.

Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?

I will continue to fight for justice, fairness, and constitutional rights until my dying breath.

Reading isn't the opposite of doing, it's the opposite of dying.

There's no point in comforting words, in telling her she'll be all right. She's no fool. Her hand reaches out and I clutch it like a lifeline. As if it's me who's dying instead of Rue.

If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.

A Christian Anarchist does not depend on bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One Man Revolution with which he faces a decadent, confused and dying world.

I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.