Dying Quotes

3128 Dying quotes by 1926 unique authors

Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes… — Walter Savage Landor
A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away. — Tennessee Williams
It takes so many years to learn that one is dead. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life. — William Hazlitt
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them. — Tennessee Williams
The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies. — Seneca the Younger
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. — William Hazlitt
Where I am death is not, where death is I am not. — Epicurus
Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far,… — Charles Lindbergh
One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life… — Seneca the Younger
Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come. — George Santayana
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination. — George Bernard Shaw
If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final. — Cyndi Lauper
... there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It has always been my belief that I, too, will die by violence. I have done all that I can to be prepared. — Malcolm X
Any number of my former brothers felt they would make heroes of themselves in the Nation of Islam if they killed me. ...I knew that… — Malcolm X
And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's guess which of the 'extremes' in approach to the black man's problems might… — Malcolm X
Anything I do today, I regard as urgent. — Malcolm X
Every morning when I wake up, now, I regard it as having another borrowed day. — Malcolm X

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