Dying Quotes

On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive.

breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

I choose to live until death, not spend the time dying until death occurs.

No, I shall not give in. I shall go on. I shall work to the end.

Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.

Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.

We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

Moments is about a girl dying and her boyfriend committing suicide because he can't live without her

We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for

All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?

Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.

God help me now to preach the Word to all the dying around, and tell them how.

He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.

I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there

Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you.

The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for... The one thing that can't be taken from us, even by death, is the love we give away before we go.

There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.

Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.

Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.

There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?

The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.

Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead.

Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!

I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly.

Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.

You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.

Everything ends with flowers.

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are

You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.

I guess this is gonna sound kind of weird, but I'm not scared for myself for dying. Because I believe all these places are temporary. This is just one shell. Because we Hawaiians live in both worlds.

I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.

Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition

Many ALS patients end up fading away quietly and dying. For me, this was not OK. I did not want to fade away quietly.

The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the unloved-- they are Jesus in disguise.

Things are simple when you're going to die.

Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed.

I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.

People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.

I paint flowers to prevent them from dying

Dying to your own attachments is a beautiful death. Because this death releases you into real life. You have to die as a seed to live as a tree.

A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.

I have carefully weighed the virtues and the faults of the Filipino and I have come to the conclusion that he is worth dying for.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways...