Dying Quotes
3128 Dying quotes by 1926 unique authors
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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will…
— Henry Van Dyke
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He not busy being born is busy dying.
— Bob Dylan
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For me, being a woman suits what I want to talk about and what my audience wants to hear. Maybe I'm a dying breed.
— Jenny Eclair
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Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
— Epicurus
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
— Edna Ferber
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I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really…
— Tina Fey
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
— Jean de La Fontaine
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If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because…
— Nhat Hanh
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Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
— Joseph Hall
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
— Dag Hammarskjold
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
— Dag Hammarskjold
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There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me.
— David Hasselhoff
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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
— Arthur Helps
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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of…
— Keith Henson
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Only the young die good.
— Oliver Herford
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If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
— James Herriot
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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as…
— Hermann Hesse
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Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. for everyone.
— James Hetfield
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
— Damien Hirst
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I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was…
— Christopher Hitchens
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One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to…
— Christopher Hitchens
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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