Dying Quotes
3128 Dying quotes by 1926 unique authors
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She told her therapist it reminded her of coming home the summer after her freshman year at Rutgers, stepping back into the warm bath of…
— Tom Perrotta
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Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre. We do that…
— Terrence McNally
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THE DYING GAUL is a Hollywood satire. But Hollywood is not the real subject matter here. My play uses that world of high-rolling big money…
— Craig Lucas
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I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon.…
— Dennis Potter
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We cannot better assure our eternal happiness than by living and dying in the service of the poor, in the arms of Providence, and with…
— Vincent de Paul
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A beam of God's countenance is enough to fill the heart of a believer to overflowing. It is enough to light up the pale cheek…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing, but I don't…
— Stephen King
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I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker's head if they're not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it's bad, the…
— Gustave Flaubert
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Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.
— Thomas Paine
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Why are entire flocks of industrial birds dying at once? And what about the people eating those birds? Just the other day, one of the…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid…
— Kaley Cuoco
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Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not be dead in…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Cursing themselves in ragged dreamsfire has singed the edges of,they know a slow dying the fields have come to terms with.Shimmering fans work against the…
— Yusef Komunyakaa
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I think the birds in the area are dying laughing watching me try not to crash.
— Cynthia Hand
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...in the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying of cancer- she…
— Will Schwalbe
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To me, my grandfather’s urgency to preach the Gospel one more time to a lost and dying world is the definition of 'finishing well,' and…
— Will Graham
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It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to…
— Bruce Davison
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October turned my maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers: Soon these will slip from the twigs' weak…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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There is no God, and conversation is a dying art.
— Raymond Carver
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How the holy and the profane mix in the light of day and at the end of life is sometimes the most beautiful thing in…
— Mark Helprin
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I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for…
— Emile M. Cioran
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I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people…
— Alan Moore
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Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Rock & Roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The music gave you back the beat so you could…
— Legs McNeil
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Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts…
— Atul Gawande
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