Dying Quotes

3128 Dying quotes by 1926 unique authors

These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. There were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But… — Morrie Schwartz
All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth? — Og Mandino
I have no intention of dying. In fact, it will be the last thing I do! — Milton H. Erickson
It's quite possible to arrive in the year 2030 where people are no longer dying of poverty. We could actually help lead a global end-not… — Jeffrey Sachs
Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of… — Henry Fielding
Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I. — Susan Sontag
Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and the old sheep. — Miguel de Cervantes
Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is… — Epicurus
Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear… — Epictetus
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse. — Aeschylus
The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start. — Anaxagoras
Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever. — Ugo Betti
You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live. — Robert Browning
Nearly dying brings you closer to living. There's a thin border; you feel yourself cross it, going back to the land of the living, going… — Jackie Kay
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death. — Thomas Browne
Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life. — Jean Giraudoux
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. — William Hazlitt
Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes… — Walter Savage Landor
A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away. — Tennessee Williams
It takes so many years to learn that one is dead. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life. — William Hazlitt
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often… — Robert Louis Stevenson

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