Dying Quotes

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

It has served us well, this myth of Christ.

Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death.

All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.

Getting old and dying alone is my worst fear.

Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.

We brought nothing into this world and it's certain we can carry nothing out.

The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.

When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say 'wow, that was an adventure,' not 'wow, I sure felt safe.'

What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this anguish of shadows, this passion over death and light.

I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.

Anyone not busy learning is busy dying.

Yes, it's tough, but not as tough as doing comedy.

Get my swan costume ready.

Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?

The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.

The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

Rock & roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.

It's not dying you need to be afraid of, it's never having lived in the first place.

As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.

And love … love was worth dying for. Worth living for, too.

Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out cards praying for "Peace on Earth."

Nurses quietly go about their work in a noble profession, uncelebrated soldiers toiling through the days and nights in service to the sick, the injured and the dying.

Languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. A language dies every 14 days.

For everything in life there is always a beginning and an end. This is the tough part the most difficult thing when you see that it’s coming: The end.

If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.

People are dying in vain because America isn't holding their end of the bargain up, as far as giving freedom and justice, liberty to everybody. That's something that's not happening.

I stopped dying the moment I started writing

My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.

To offer a man friendship when love is in his heart is like giving a loaf of bread to one who is dying of thirst.

Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel.

If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.

Dying to meet your girlfriends that you said you might bring. If they're the ones that tell you that you do the right thing.

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so low that God has not gone lower.

I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.

America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism.

I don’t think of dying, I think of being here now.

Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?

Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain.

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

I am now face to face with dying. But I am not finished with living.

I'm not afraid of dying I'm afraid of not trying

As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.

We taste and suckle each other, and I'm so thirsty he could feed me his kiss all night and I'd still be dying in the desert.

We've been so concerned about being cool, relevant, and fun that we have forgotten to be bread, light, and life to a hungry, dark, and dying world.