Dying Quotes

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I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland

Get busy living or get busy dying.
- Stephen King

If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu

Momma always said dyin' was a part of life.
I sure wish it wasn't.
- the movie Forrest Gump

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates

There are only four questions of value in life...
What is sacred?
Of what is the spirit made?
What is worth living for,
and what is worth dying for?
The answer to each is the same: only love.
- Johnny Depp as Don Juan in the movie Don Juan De Marco

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
- Thomas Mann

We are all so much together,
but we are all dying of loneliness.
- Albert Schweitzer

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.
- Annie Lennox

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness
in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn
sunsets exquisitely dying.
- Langston Hughes

Dying is a wild night and a new road.
- Emily Dickinson

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

The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- although attributed to St. Francis of Assisi,
this prayer first appeared (written in French) in 1912

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.
- John F. Kennedy

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep,
and there comes a time when it is wrong,
as well as useless, to resist.
- Stewart Alsop

Islam is a religion of success.
Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image,
in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating,
disgraceful, helpless death.
- Karen Armstrong

It is better to not even try it than to endure the
ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.
- Christy Turlington

There are many things worth living for,
a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
- Tom Robbins

As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying.
Maybe he was telling me that he was going.
I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.
- Robin Gibb

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

We are dying from overthinking.
We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything.
Think.
Think.
Think.
You can never trust the human mind anyway.
It's a death trap.
- Anthony Hopkins

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and
to go on with one's life as if it were interminable.
I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when
he was dying of tuberculosis.
- Leon Edel

Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.
- Todd Akin

I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that,
but not right now, I need to clean the house first.
- Astrid Lindgren

Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.
- Christian Furchtegott Gellert

The world is the mirror of myself dying.
- Henry Miller

You know, I don't mind dying.
The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man.
I was looking forward to that.
- Robert Lansing

He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.
- William Penn

I think about dying.
I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.
- Richard Pryor

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
- Henry Fielding

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.
- Polly Toynbee

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
- Alexander the Great

I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that
my country will gain her independence.
- David Wooster

Dying before dying has two important consequences:
It liberates the individual from the fear of death
and influences the actual experience of dying at the
time of biological demise.
- Stanislav Grof

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon
is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out,
and I will tell you how old you are,
and I shall know if you are happy.
- Henri Frederic Amiel

I watched children dying.
That will be the image that will stay with me.
- Ian Botham

I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep
on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!
- Lee Ryan

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.
- Leslie Fiedler

I felt good full figured.
Morbidly obese I was unhealthy and dying.
- Star Jones

Even very young children need to be informed about dying.
Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child.
This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
- P. J. O'Rourke

How some of the writers I come across get through their
books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
- William Gaddis

I had, early in life, a love for staging,
but it is fast dying out.
Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out
the most passionate love of that kind.
- Maria Mitchell

Whoever lives among many evils just as I,
how can dying not be a source of gain?
- Sophocles

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame.
I want to achieve immortality by not dying.
- William De Morgan

Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office,
being told his wife is dying.
Then we see him walking the streets,
and the story is told in flashback.
- Arthur Hiller

This might be the first generation where kids are dying
at a younger age than their parents and it's related
primarily to the obesity problem.
- Judy Davis

I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello.
I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.
- Ted Lange

I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform,
working unnoticed for many years and at last dying,
unknown, unmarried and unsung.
- Kate Smith

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on.
I'm not afraid of dying.
Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
- Kurt Cobain

Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.
- Jane Grey Swisshelm

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting,
I know that the violence will be in the thought and
the action of the assassins,
not in my dying.
- Indira Gandhi

There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying.
- John Thorn

There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me.
- David Hasselhoff

There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training,
but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing.
- Lawrence Korb

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday,
lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
- Redd Foxx

A closed mind is a dying mind.
- Edna Ferber

When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event,
rather than the event itself.
People dying is never funny.
Protest puppets are always funny.
- Mo Rocca

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility,
knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence,
how to live by dying.
- Johannes Tauler

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.
- Sue Monk Kidd

Dying is easy; comedy is hard.
- Donald Wolfit

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal;
a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
- William Butler Yeats

Dying is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real.
I guess you could say I've a call.
- Sylvia Plath

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying,
and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.
- Norman MacCaig

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you,
because someone's got to take care of all your details.
- Andy Warhol

I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the
dying or a hospital for the sick children,
and feel that I am needed.
I want to do, not just to be.
- Princess Diana

If I was still at school, I'd be looking at Britney
Spears and dying to be her.
- Sheena Easton

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end,
with Eddie dying in the sun.
- Mitch Albom

I like acting for now.
But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut.
I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!
- Natalie Portman

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