Dying Quotes
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If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
Lao Tzu
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Women-in-jeopardy movies are, in essence, the updated versions of men dying to save the princess from the dragon to earn her love. They are modern-day training films for teaching women to select the best protectors while weeding out the rest.
Warren Farrell
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You know what they say? They say, 'The print media is dying' - who says that? Well, the media.
Patrick Chappatte
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We are fastened to a dying animal.
William Butler Yeats
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Authority forgets a dying king.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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One of my greatest joys is poetry. I read it almost every day, and I've even taken a stab at writing some of my own. A poem I wrote for my mother when she was dying really helped me get through that hard time.
Maria Shriver
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The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth.
Ella Maillart
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Oh, I'm dying to play Donald Trump someday, just because he's an unbelievable character. I'm a character actor; that's what you look for: outsized human beings.
John Lithgow
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The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had.
Gary Jules
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I started doing a Twitter feed when my father was dying. I was very distracted, preoccupied. It was upsetting.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Matthew Arnold
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Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.
Margaret Mitchell
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The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who he is when he is not writing, when he is living his daily life, when he is alive and real, and not dying and without truth.
Maurice Blanchot
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Misconceptions about Young Adult fiction aren't new to fans of the genre. From being dismissed as mindless fluff for 'Twilight'-obsessed tweens, to constant warnings that the genre is dying, kerfuffles between the media and readers occur with alarming regularity.
Jennifer Armintrout
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Many a bard's untimely death Lends unto his verses breath; Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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In real life, it's war, and war's not entertainment. War is 'old men lying and young men dying' kind of deal. That's a saying; I didn't make that up.
Marcus Luttrell
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A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.
Brian Williams
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Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.
Katori Hall
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AS A KID I WAS PROMISED an America - An America I believed in - and I insist on living - and dying - in that America, even I have to create it myself.
Alfred Stieglitz
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For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the things that are enriching to me or creatively exciting to me or if I stop creating, then I feel stagnant. If something isn't growing, it's dying.
Chris Hardwick
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You don't have to find out you're dying to start living.
Zach Sobiech
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People are dying to tell you their secrets; it's just a matter of getting the conversation going in the right direction. If you just let people fill the silence, they will let you the most extraordinary things. I sometimes wonder if afterward they remember what they've said.
Charles McCarry
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Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas