Dying Quotes

The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off.

The pathway to enlightenment is happiness. It doesn't really matter if you're successful, if you're in prison, if you're dying - if you have contact with light.

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.

Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death.

I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will maintain that to my dying day

It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.

Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is to die well.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

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.

To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.

The dead have nothing except the memory they've left.

Isn’t it funny to think that this magnificent piece of matter is in a state of decay? Really, can you think of any other living thing that looks this glorious as it’s dying?

Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.

In the garden I will die. In the rosebush they will kill me.

What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

Rest is for the dead.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')

American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution.

We are all dead men on leave.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.

I realized that being present for loved ones who are dying or aging is one of the greatest honors and gifts in my life. We are quite small in the big scheme of things.

Shame is the dying embers of virtue.

My understanding is that to love, we need to be able to totally surrender to the living/dying nature of this world.

Aging has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

The spectator is a dying animal.

Nothing is more vintage than dying of Rubella.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I am dying of hunger.