Dying Quotes

3128 Dying quotes by 1926 unique authors

Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice… — William Butler Yeats
I begin each day with holy Mass, receiving Jesus hidden under the appearance of a simple piece of bread. Then I go out into the… — Mother Teresa
There should be a word that means beginning/end because nothing begins without something dying. — Rachel Naomi Remen
Death should not be seen as the end but as a very effective way to cut down expenses. — Woody Allen
We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood. — Yasser Arafat
Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. — Ambrose Bierce
It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars; to… — Unknown Author
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the… — Albert Camus
Rest is for the dead. — Thomas Carlyle
In the stars is written the death of every man. — Geoffrey Chaucer
If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours. — Clarence Day
The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The… — Tryon Edwards
Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out. — Unknown Author
On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who… — Donal Henahan
War is death's feast. — George Herbert
Life death all does end and each day dies with sleep. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.') — Thomas a Kempis
A suicide kills two people . . . that's what it's for. — Arthur Miller
The dead have nothing except the memory they've left. — Ferenc Molnar
A beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals to die like angels. — Mother Teresa
Defeat is worse than death because you live with defeat. — Unknown Author
Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life. — Anais Nin
During the mid-1980s dairy farmers decided there was too much cheap milk at the supermarket. So the government bought and slaughtered 1.6 million dairy cows.… — P.J. O'Rourke
The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others… — P.J. O'Rourke

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