I'd rather be dead than dying.

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Somebody better be dead or dying." He froze mid-step when he saw her. It might have been wishful thinking but she could've sworn his…

— Cherrie Lynn

“You're not dead. I'm not dead. Why? How? Dying wasn't on my list.”

— Alex Adams

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

— Thomas Paine

I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call…

— David Levithan

Where will you be when God is glorifying? There we will be between the dead and dying.

— Cradle Of Filth

“No shit, there's worse ways to be dead than dying.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

You must prune dead or dying wood.

— Warren Giles

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but…

— Muriel Rukeyser

“The fire was nothing now but a funeral of smoke, dead and dying, simultaneously.”

— Markus Zusak

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and…

— St. Jerome

I always say my first break was a dead man's break.

— John Kani

“It had been a couple of years and I was neither dead, nor undead, which I ranked as an achievement.”

— Mark Henwick

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

— Jean Cocteau

“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana