Dying Quotes

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

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.

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

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

This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.

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.

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable.

When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.

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.

The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?

After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled.

She was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew that she would never live again.

The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.

What happens if a car comes? We die.

Death. It's around more than people realize. Because no one wants to talk about it or hear about it. It's too sad. Too painful. Too hard. The list of reasons is endless.

Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.

I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.

Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.

... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever.

One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.

Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.

If I was still at school, I'd be looking at Britney Spears and dying to be her.

Kugel was a firm believer that death was not always a bad thing - that life often reached such levels of crapitude that dying was preferable to living.

I don’t need to ring anyone. I said I’m dying. I didn’t say I wanted to live.

I'm delirious because I'm dying so fast.

Dying in unfamiliar surroundings miles away from home, it cannot possibly be good. There is a great sadness about that I think.

One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.

I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.

It simply comes down to this, Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying.

The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead.

Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.

Now people with HIV are no longer dying, but living many years - we are around longer to potentially affect others.

Never fear being a petty fool it means you ain't dying

Dying is one of those things that can’t be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.

Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality.

You're dying every minute, but you won't die yet.

He had a smug smile on his lips like he knew, even in his sleep, that women all around him were dying from love because he'd taken their hearts and hidden them where they'd never find them.

Wherever humans garden magnificently, there are magnificent heartbreaks.

Soon I will honor my parents by dying as they died. and if all they believed about death was true, soon I will join them in whatever comes next.

The self persists like a dying star, In sleep, afraid.

We are fastened to a dying animal.

You said that the mind is like the wind but perhaps it is we who are like the wind Knowing nothing, simply blowing through. Never aging, never dying.

How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress ?

Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.

Unfortunately, I think music videos are a dying breed because there is no money in them.

There are two things you can be certain of: dying and getting the arse as a football coach.

You have to be at the forefront of culture to create art, which they call "product," and Hollywood is not. It's this very old business model, which I think is dying in a lot of ways.