Dying Quotes

3128 Dying quotes by 1926 unique authors

Moon, worn thin to the width of a quill,/ In the dawn clouds flying,/ How good to go, light into light, and still/ Giving light,… — Sara Teasdale
Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task. — Sigmund Freud
It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with 18-year-olds getting diplomas… — Newt Gingrich
When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can't think any more. — Claude Monet
I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It's… — Claude Monet
Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky. — Ursula K. Le Guin
The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today. — Carlos Castaneda
My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive… — Anne Lamott
No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct… — Lawrence Durrell
Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality. — Sathya Sai Baba
The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry… — Phineas Fletcher
Unless you're Shannon Hoon (of Blind Melon), dying is the only thing that guarantees a rock star will have a legacy that stretches beyond temporary… — Chuck Klosterman
For me, starting each collection is always about what I really want, what I really need, and I was personally dying for sensual comfort. I… — Donna Karan
Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you? — Wyndham Lewis
In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying. — Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
In my head I am in one of those Buddhist caves where you see a thousand Buddha faces on the wall. In my head I… — Francesco Clemente
I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left. — Randy Pausch
It requires courage to face and to conquer the immense weight of inertia and the dead and dying traditions and sophistications that clutter the minds… — Lawren Harris
Dying young is the easy way out. It's much harder to keep your edge and keep it going. — Robert Longo
Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at… — Emily Dickinson
I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me. — Emily Dickinson
How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit,… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Being born he have himself as our Companion, Eating with us he gave himself as Food, Dying He became our Ransom, Reigning he gives himself… — Thomas Aquinas
I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it. — Errol Flynn

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