Dying Quotes

3128 Dying quotes by 1926 unique authors

I've been thinking of death a lot, and I am amazed by its inevitability, frightened, as we all are, of the totally unknown, and yet… — Jackson Pollock
As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue, and gentleness are… — Francis Quarles
Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A… — William Shakespeare
O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame! — William Shakespeare
Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets. — Wilfrid Sheed
There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading. — Agnes Smedley
Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him; and every man after death goes to that Hell or heaven in which he was, or… — Emanuel Swedenborg
Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars. — Hunter S. Thompson
The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable. — Leo Tolstoy
To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder. — Gore Vidal
The dead carry with them to the grave in their clutched hands only that which they have given away. — DeWitt Wallace
Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death. — Virginia Woolf
This is a beautiful time, this last age, the age of the Holy Spirit... He is crying to every soul that is walled: Open to… — Jessica Powers
What good is it if the Eucharistic table is overloaded with golden chalices when your brother is dying of hunger. Start by satisfying his hunger… — Saint John Chrysostom
He who walking on the sea could calm the bitter waves, who gives life to the dying seeds of the earth; he who was able… — Unknown Author
To not think of dying, is to not think of living. — Jann Arden
It is worth dying to find out what life is. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with… — Charles Lindbergh
Fairness is an efficiency parameter if we look at the whole global civilization. It is not an efficient way of meeting human needs if one… — Karl-Henrik Robert
I won't mind dying if I can tell St. Peter a joke he hasn't heard. — Red Skelton
But we are not interested in death at all: rather, we escape the facts, we are continuously escaping the facts. Death is there, and every… — Rajneesh
Death is the door from the superficial life, the so-called life, the trivial. There is a door. If you pass through the door you reach… — Rajneesh
Don't depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing changes; you only… — Paramahansa Yogananda
There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret.… — Gabriel Ba

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