Dying Quotes · Page 86

Life is not having, it's wanting. Life is not taking, it's giving. Life is not dying, it's living.

— Heather Dorff

I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up…

— Lee Ryan

There is no God, and conversation is a dying art.

— Raymond Carver

If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Thanks to history books, I have realised that people over the years have been dying of war, and that enabled me to…

— Kamal Haasan

If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A club there is of smokers--dare you come To that close, clouded, hot, narcotic room? When, midnight past, the very candles seem…

— George Crabbe

I hate America. I hate this country. It’s just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you. The white…

— Tony Kushner

When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this…

— Nancy Astor

Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea! Over…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I want you to put more life into your dying.

— Samuel

Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. Legend tells us that Lincoln's dying mother called her…

— Wilferd Peterson

“London, December 1915. In the master bedroom (never was the estate agent's epithet more appropriate) of Flat 21, Carlyle Mansions, Cheyne Walk,…

— David Lodge

A Warder once told me Trollocs call the Aiel Waste 'the Dying Ground.' I mean to make them give that name to…

— Robert Jordan

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

— Mark Twain

“I had to hope there was more to life than death. More to living than not dying.”

— Rachel Higginson

It's very shocking, I think, for people caring for the dying to realise how unsaintly they feel, how much anger is mixed…

— Helen Garner

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

— William Penn

Never fear being a petty fool it means you ain't dying

— Timothy Spall

Enlightenment is a lot like dying. You might wonder why there aren't more enlightened people. It is because they are afraid to…

— Frederick Lenz

I think actual death will be a lot easier than dying on stage. Cause - you know - if you do [actual…

— Joan Rivers

My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate

— Victor Cruz

I take a less gloomy view. A good life means fighting to be human under growing difficulties. A lot of young folk…

— Alasdair Gray

The only thing I have never known is true intimacy with a man. I absolutely wanted to discover that before dying.

— Jane Fonda

That Jem makes beautiful things and I destroy them. That it really ought to be me dying and not him. I mean,…

— Cassandra Clare

I knew about AIDS. My friends were dying right, left, and center. I did a record with Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, and…

— Elton John

You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally,…

— Alan Lomax

A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.

— Allan Gregg

I am more afraid of doing what is wrong than of dying.

— Philip Doddridge

“Dželat mi prilazi i kaže: "Spustite glavu na panj i raširite ruke kad budete spremni, gospo." Poslušno spuštam ruke na panj i…

— Philippa Gregory

“Death lurks in the shadows, just out of view. Now and then I see his reaching hand, uncertain of the blurry image…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their…

— Jackson Katz

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as…

— John Muir

All my life's about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn't…

— Norm MacDonald

If there be any one point in which the Christian church ought to keep its fervor at a white heat, it is…

— Charles Spurgeon

People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk.

— Chuck Palahniuk

It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.

— Umberto Eco

Ned passed the next few minutes quietly not dying in his office, and was pleased with how well it was going. He'd…

— A. Lee Martinez

The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.

— Eddie Rickenbacker