Dying Quotes

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying wi...

To Tiffany's surprise, Nanny Ogg was weeping gently. Nanny took another swig from her flagon and wip...

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

We are aberrations—beings born undead, neither one thing nor another, or two things at once … uncann...

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

We must be willing to accept the bitter truth that, in the end, we may have to become a burden to th...

I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.

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

Death - the last voyage the longest the best.

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?'...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefo...

I breathe in. The water will wash my wounds clean. I breathe out. My mother submerged me in water wh...

You were right to come to see a dying man. It is right that these moments should have witnesses. Eve...

There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a fri...

Death belongs only to God. What right have men to lay hands on a thing so unknown?

A week passed, and Jean Valjean had not taken a step in his room. He still remained in bed. The port...

I must be able to say, 'Percival, a ridiculous name'. At the same time let me tell you, men and wome...

Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Dying is a dull, dreary affair. my advice is that you have nothing whatever to with it.

He's lost his colour very far from here,Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry

Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, e...

When you stop growing you start dying.

When Andrew Jackson died someone asked a friend if he thought Old Hickory would go to heaven. 'He wi...

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying...

I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

You never know, until it happens, what you will owe the dead.

The friend I can trust is the one who will let me have my death.The rest are actors who want me to s...

Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let ...

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a sk...

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath And after many a summer dieth the swan.

Flowers, cold from the dew,And autumn's approaching breath,I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids,Wh...

Let my heiress have full rights,Live in my house, sing songs that I composed.Yet how slowly my stren...

If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there. We becom...

The trouble with dying...is that you don't get to see how everything turns out. You won't know the e...

Yesterday I watched a curious nightfall. The cloud ceiling took on a warm tone, deepened, and depart...

I think that the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at...

Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person...

And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep...

Around around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of verti...

It's inspirational to see someone who is dying smile.

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die o...

From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.

I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently ...

I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew...

Most people would die sooner than think in fact they do.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

It’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the goo...

To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the...

...the existential paradox we all experience; we feel that we are immortal, yet we know that we will...

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

DEATH COMES SLOWLY LIKE ANTS TO A FALLEN FIG

I can see wherecreation oftenstops while thebody still livesand oftendoes not careto.the death of li...

The dead do not needaspirin orsorrow,I suppose.but they might needrain.not shoesbut a place towalk.n...

It is a dreadful thing to wait and watch for the approach of death; to know that hope is gone, and r...

It is a far far better thing that I do than anything I have ever done it is a far far better re...

There is no such thing as death In nature nothing dies: From each sad moment of decay Some forms o...

When a man dies he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.

Human life consists in mutual service. No grief pain misfortune or 'broken heart' is excuse for c...

And all the winds go sighing, For sweet things dying

The harassed look is that of a desperately tired swimmer or runner; yet there is no question of stop...

Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face - the face of the child, the...

We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a...

Death is a long process," Archer says. "Your body is just the first part of you that croaks." Meanin...

You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I ...

Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands...

The bottom line was that he didn't want to die. As far as he was concerned, death was the problem. T...

London, December 1915. In the master bedroom (never was the estate agent's epithet more appropriate)...

By doing, I learn what to do. By going, I learn where to go. One day, by dying, I'll learn how to di...

Supermarkets this large and clean and modern are a revelation to me. I spent my life in small steamy...

Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a l...

Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your...

Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.

It cost me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. 'Aha my little dear' I say 'You...

Poisons pain you Rivers are damp Acid stains you And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful Noose...

What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't ...

I'm dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're ...

Do not go gentle into that good night Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage rage again...

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rage at close of day; Rage, rage agai...

How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not bei...

He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.

When I asked her what was the matter? answered, she didn't know; but she felt so afraid of dying!

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me - The carriage held but just ourselves A...

Life is death we're lengthy at

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.

Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of ...

In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt qu...

To die is a debt we must all of us discharge.

But we who remain shall grow oldWe shall know the coldOf cheerlessWinter and the rain of Autumn and ...

The meaning of life is that it ends

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

When the little mouse, which was loved as none other was in the mouse-world, got into a trap one nig...

In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.

At eighty-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a...

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

As long as I have a want I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.