"To want fame is to prefer dying scorned…" — Emile M. Cioran

More Dying Quotes

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• Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a… — Karen Armstrong
• Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
• Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
• The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. — Marcus Aurelius
• The act of dying is one of the acts of life. — Marcus Aurelius
• Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from… — Marcus Aurelius
• I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon
• It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as… — Francis Bacon
• Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a… — Brigitte Bardot
• All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying. — Richard Barnfield
• I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men. — Richard Baxter

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