Dying Quotes

3128 Dying quotes by 1926 unique authors

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
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. — Marcus Aurelius
The act of dying is one of the acts of life. — Marcus Aurelius
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
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon
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
Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal. — Brigitte Bardot
All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying. — Richard Barnfield
I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men. — Richard Baxter
To die will be an awfully big adventure. — James M. Barrie
The best place a person can die, is where they die for others. — James M. Barrie
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. — Mary Catherine Bateson
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
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
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
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
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
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found. — Samuel Beckett
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. — Joseph Addison
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. — Walter Benjamin
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying. — John Berger
I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when… — Jello Biafra

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