Dying Quotes

3128 Dying quotes by 1926 unique authors

A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came… — Walt Whitman
But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help… — Evelyn Waugh
The moment of Jesus' greatest glory was on the cross, dying as our substitute. — Rich Nathan
As indicated by the increase in maternal mortality in 2010, right now it's more dangerous to give birth in California than in Kuwait or Bosnia.… — Jessica Valenti
Barefooted workers would take apart, bit by bit, the dying ships with their bare hands, shipyard in Gaddani, Pakistan. On their shoulders, workers bore great… — G.M.B. Akash
The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own culture. In Yeats'… — Brad Blanton
People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is… — Pete Earley
A person who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only to consider whether… — Plato
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die,… — Mahatma Gandhi
If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying? — Rabindranath Tagore
There is need for some kind of make-believe in order to face death unflinchingly. To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on… — Eric Hoffer
The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. — Oscar Wilde
It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and… — William Faulkner
Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning… — Unknown Author
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. — Norman Douglas
Another difference between death and taxes is that you don't have to work like fury to pay for the dying you did last year. — Robert Quillen
I was just dying to get out of my twenties. — Juliana Hatfield
My family, my friends, and skiing... thats it for me, thats my life. The joy I get from skiing, thats worth dying for. — Charles R. Johnson
I dare you to read a book this weekend! War and Peace? To Kill a Mocking Bird? Catcher in the Rye? The Heart is a… — Madonna Ciccone
Among the plastic saints of our times, Jesus has to do all the dying, and all we want to hear is another sermon about his… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday… — Kajol
There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the… — Emile M. Cioran
It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out. — Logan Pearsall Smith
Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light. — Stephen Jay Gould

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