Dying Quotes

3128 Dying quotes by 1926 unique authors

Things are simple when you're going to die. — Vivien Leigh
They say the day you die your name is written on a cloud. — Unknown Author
It is easier to die when the heart is full of gratitude. — Carole Lombard
When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies? — Greta Garbo
If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life. — Lionel Barrymore
Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and… — Alexander Pope
Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that… — Henry Ward Beecher
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of… — Raoul Vaneigem
I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life. — Ernest Renan
One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live. — John Ruskin
No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees. — William Wordsworth
Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end. — Thomas Troward
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. — Hannah Arendt
Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I… — Samuel Beckett
O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world… — Walter Raleigh
The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that… — Seneca the Younger
But the peasants - how do the peasants die? — Leo Tolstoy
How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs… — Eugene Ionesco
When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful… — Marquis de Sade
Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished,… — George Bernard Shaw
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered… — Plutarch
What shall he fear that does not fear death. — Friedrich Schiller
I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death. — William Shakespeare

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