Dying Quotes

3128 Dying quotes by 1926 unique authors

This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of… — Joan Didion
The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying… — Sebastian Faulks
I'm not surprised people are being slaughtered, people are being martyred. Our hope isn't in this world as believers, it's in the eternity. To be… — Russell Okung
Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe… — Ann Brashares
The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been… — Leslie Fiedler
I try to run on the hottest days, at the hottest time, because that's the most difficult time. And sometimes I worry about drying out,… — Walter Payton
... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a… — Iris Murdoch
Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, - passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely… — Henry David Thoreau
People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets. — George Best
Because white men can’t police their imaginations, black men are dying. — Claudia Rankine
In terms of the ego, most religions teach in some way that all of us must die before we die, and then we will not… — Richard Rohr
Becoming a vegan gave me another opportunity to live a healthy life. I was so congested from all the drugs and bad cocaine, I could… — Mike Tyson
We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but… — Rollo May
Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify… — Audre Lorde
Slowly I learn the importance of powerlessness. I experience it in my own life and I live with it in my work. The secret is… — Sheila Cassidy
The biggest fear of my life is living. My second biggest fear is dying. — Marya Hornbacher
Not actively surviving is passively dying. — Ori Hofmekler
It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it just wouldn't come. — Anita Baker
The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties. — Carol Grace
In the garden I will die. In the rosebush they will kill me. — Federico Garcia Lorca
Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
To the fuki plant, dandelions, and their kind that lie for long patiently under the fallen snow, comes the season of breezy spring. No sooner… — Kobayashi Issa
Nothing's easier to talk about than surrendering ourselves and dying on the Cross. Nothing's harder than actually doing it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm was brewing, and… — Alfred de Musset

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