Dying Quotes
3128 quotes by 2058 authors
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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,…
— Karen Armstrong
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
— Matthew Arnold
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind,…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
— Francis Bacon
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
— Francis Bacon
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Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.
— Brigitte Bardot
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All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.
— Richard Barnfield
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I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.
— Richard Baxter
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
— James M. Barrie
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The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.
— James M. Barrie
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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
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I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being there for her every need for…
— Melody Beattie
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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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To live a life that is wrong for you is a form of dying. There are people who have lives that look perfect. They try…
— Martha Beck
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