Dying Quotes

3128 Dying quotes by 1926 unique authors

I don't want to be any closer to the gods than death will bring me. — Janet Morris
There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to… — Ezra Pound
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. — Jean de la Bruyere
We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us. — Ann Landers
He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit. — Friedrich Schiller
Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price. And that price is blood. The sound of… — Janet Morris
But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend.… — James Russell Lowell
Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free. — James Russell Lowell
Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a… — Aldous Huxley
Niko knew death like a sister - she was his true partner in the phenomenal world. — Janet Morris
The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of… — William Shakespeare
The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands. — Kin Hubbard
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in… — Aldous Huxley
I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. — Walter Savage Landor
When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
How does one get rid of fear? Ramana: What is fear? It is only a thought. If there is anything besides the Self there is… — Ramana Maharshi
There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war. — George S. Patton
Once you decide that you're going to have the death of Spock, then how does that affect the other people? Why is it there? I… — Nicholas Meyer
The rise and fall of Tony Montana, and what a way to go out. — Unknown Author
It was, just as Kinski had predicted, suicide. He should never have done it. It is widely held by those who knew him, and Kinski… — Cintra Wilson
Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor the furious winters' rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy… — William Shakespeare
Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to… — Thomas Jefferson

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