Dying Quotes

I don't know much about death and the sorriest lesson I've learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone's dying.

Why, in our "free" country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?

As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.

When we usually think of fears, in comics or in films, it's most often fears on a relatively superficial level: fear of murderous insects, of ghosts, of zombies, or even fear of dying.

Los Angeles: where dreams go to make movies about themselves dying.

It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.

We professional athletes are very lucky. Unlike most mortals, we are given the privilege of dying twice - once when we retire and again when death takes us.

I bet dying vultures have lots of awkward moments with their friends. - Guy Endore

A love that dies has never lived.

I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they're dying; and to keep enemies of God from remembering that they're enemies.

As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.

I looked up and all I saw was blue lights. If I die tonight, I'm dying in a gun fight.

Dying away from home, away from the soil of your birth - and to do so unseen and unmourned - is a profound horror.

Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.

The best part of chronic head lice is it takes away your fear of dying alone.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.

Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.

In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.

One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.

Your father died for me, and dying with you would be an honor, though not as great as dying to save you.

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.

If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.

Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

When we died, no one would know, and that fraction of a moment that was so important to who we were would be gone.

When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us.

Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die.

It was inevitable, of course, but somehow it didn't seem right to Alex that they would never remember the sound of Carly's laughter, or know how deeply she'd once loved them.

I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.

GPs are almost the only doctors these days who understand all problems, can see the whole person…spend time with the dying…see things through to the end.

Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

This is how it feels to die: It starts from outside and works its way in.

The best way to die is when your living

When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.

Who set Rome on fire? The man we must admire. For killing his wife, and taking the life of mother and brother and so many others, while plucking his damnable lyre.

All who are born are always dying.

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.

Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.

He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.

That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence

There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer.

The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.

Dying has a funny way of making you see people, the living and the dead, a little differently. Maybe that's just part of the grieving, or maybe the dead stand there and open our eyes a bit wider.

The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.

Its hard to die. Harder to live

Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.

Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die.

We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

Seriously, who curses you with their dying breath and says, I hope your eye twitches!