Dying Quotes

Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says. it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.

[in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye' dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.

So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in ideas that we don't even notice how monstrous it is to deny ideas to a people who are dying without them.

I feel here that this time they have succeeded.

You can't get out of life alive.

The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.

The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business.

Everyone's dying. A little, every day. Make it count.

All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.

When I was 17 years old, I put out an album while my mother was dying of cancer. That right there alone is a struggle. That's hard. That's tough for anybody.

If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

We must learn not to weep and to love what we have left.

My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to grow to manhood by loving his country--instead of dying for it.

The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood ... Life elsewhere was real and slippery and struggled in the arms like a big fish dying in air.

There was no sun; there was no light. I was dying. I couldn't remember what the sky looked like. But I didn't die. I was lost to a sea of cold, and then I was reborn into a world of warmth.

Not dead-dying. Funny how two things could be so similar and yet so far apart

Dying's a boring side effect.

The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God.

If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj.

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.

The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.

When I visited Auschwitz I was horrified. And when I visited Iraq, I thought to myself, 'What will we tell our children in fifty years when they ask what we did when the people in Iraq were dying.'

Anything I do today, I regard as urgent.

Every morning when I wake up, now, I regard it as having another borrowed day.

It's the only thing I really enjoy - so fresh, even now that I'm doing the new sampling. I'm dying to go to the factory, which is like nobody's idea of fun. But it's mine.

L'ide e qu'on mourra est plus cruelle que mourir, mais moins que l'ide e qu'un autre est mort. The idea of dying is worse than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that another has died.

The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.

There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.

Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.

I don't think I've ever been particularly scared of death - but scared of dying, the process. It doesn't seem to be a good way of doing it.

If you've got nothing worth dying for, you've got nothing worth living for.

If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.

If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.

Papa loves you with a dying and infernal love," the youngest girl said. "Undying," the eldest girl corrected. "And eternal.

Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light.

My first movie was a movie that had a bunch of people dying in it - the typical popcorn movie. That's where I got my start.

Take the goods the gods provide, and don't stand and sulk when they are snatched away.

The biggest fear of my life is living. My second biggest fear is dying.

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

Gossip is dying out because fewer and fewer people care to talk about anything besides themselves.

Only death rescues us from dying.

Usage is like oxygen for ideas. That means every moment you're working on something without it being in the public it's actually dying, deprived of the oxygen of the real world.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.

You made her apologize for sickness. For her courage. You made her feel sorry for dying.

There were worse things than death, as she'd discovered. Sometimes living took far more courage. Facing another day. Enduring. Those things took strength. Far more than dying.

Dying would have been so much easier.

We have an idea - a very modern idea - that dying is undignified. But I think this is because we have the illusion that we can control our bodies and our fates.

After all dying is one of the most profound and difficult experiences we have.

Always find a time to sit on a humid autumn bench to feed the poor birds or to think the dying leaves!