Dying Quotes

It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein's rule.

I preach as a dying man to dying men.

When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies?

I do not believe that we can stop perfecting new ways of dying until we have found new ways of living. Every new life-way ought to prevent a new death-way.

We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light.

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.

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

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.

[...]when two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or dying of the other.

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.

I'll sleep well tonight

Dying is nothing, but pain is a very serious matter.

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

Wherever humans garden magnificently, there are magnificent heartbreaks.

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

It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Being fired has some of the advantages of dying without its supreme disadvantages. People say extra-nice things about you, and you get to hear them.

... I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.

I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.

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

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

Dying is not easy. It's a very hard transition.

Death does not frighten me, but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does.

A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour.

Does it hurt?" The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could stop it. "Dying? Not at all," said Sirius. "Quicker and easier than falling asleep.

It's sort of a fine line where you're dying to express it and then hoping no one really gets it that closely. But I'm pretty much over that. I'd really just like to be understood.

You've got to work at living-99 and 9/10 of Americans work at dying!

In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford.

How long can you hear someone crying - how long can you hear someone dying - before you ask yourself why?

Sometimes, I don't know that words for things, how to write down the feeling of knowing that every dying person leaves something behind.

The craziest thing about TV directing is I turned in a version, and then they made their final changes - so I don't know what they are. So I'm like, "Ooo, I'm dying to see the final print."

Dying is such a waste of good health.

That which you worry about most in life is seldom bad, and that likely applies to dying.

I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.

What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down.

There is a world above, Where parting is unknown; A whole eternity of love, Form'd for the good alone; And faith beholds the dying here Translated to that happier sphere.

If the rest of the world likes Americans only when we're dying, the rest of the world can go to hell.

You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out.

In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in.

Sometimes living takes more courage than dying.

I've done quite a lot of dying on shows and in movies. To have a good death scene though - come on, it's brilliant. I love a good death scene!

Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?

By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!

Hearing that I'd come so close to dying should've terrified me, but all I could muster up was a weary "This day sucks.

I don't run around feeling infused with positivity, but I'll have to be taking my last breath before I'll admit I'm dying. So I'm either optimistic or in denial.

But you can’t live your life worried about dying all the time. If you do, you’re dead already.

For me, being a woman suits what I want to talk about and what my audience wants to hear. Maybe I'm a dying breed.

I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.