Dying Quotes

• One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

  

  Joan of Arc
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Live

• A life cycle can be imposed on an object. An object can be very energetic and active, and then it has a dying phase and a phase of decomposition.

  

  Claes Oldenburg
  • Life
  • Dying

• Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

  

  Claude McKay
  • Men
  • Fighting
  • Wall

• I don't believe in stasis - either you are growing or dying.

  

  Jim Gray
  • Believe
  • Growing
  • Dying

• There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me.

  

  David Hasselhoff
  • Children
  • Wish
  • Dying

• If I was still at school, I'd be looking at Britney Spears and dying to be her.

  

  Sheena Easton
  • School
  • Dying

• 'Democratic socialism' is awful as a slogan and catastrophic as a policy. And 'social democracy' - a term that better fits the belief of more ordinary liberals who want, say, Medicare for all - is a politically dying force. Democrats who aren't yet sick of all their losing should feel free to embrace them both.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Free
  • Democracy
  • Sick

• It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Live
  • Soul
  • Giving

• Kids are dying from causes of sexual activity. You're not going to find a tombstone stating that Frankie died because he was a virgin.

  

  A. C. Green Jr.
  • Kids
  • Dying
  • Tombstone

• I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Thinking
  • Age
  • Death

• It's the most absurd story. I grew up in the dirt streets of Tijuana, dying of all kinds of diseases - tuberculosis, fevers, all that - and it somehow turned into this charmed life. I don't know exactly how.

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dying

• All the sciences in the world never smoothed down a dying pillow. No earthly philosophy ever supplied hope in death.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • Hope
  • Death

• 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
  • Men
  • Women
  • Rest

• So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Write
  • Danger

• I could wish for nothing more than to die for a childish dream in which I truly believed.

  

  Ryunosuke Satoro
  • Dream
  • Wish
  • Dies

• Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death. Why shouldst thou be afraid to die, who hopest to live by dying!

  

  William Gurnall
  • Death
  • Christian
  • Heaven

• Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Good
  • Men
  • Bad

• Dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something is the hard thing. Living for something extends beyond fashion, glory, or recognition. We live for what we believe.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Fashion

• The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Age
  • Death
  • Ache

• I think screenwriting gave me more of an affinity for plot - my first novel, 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,' doesn't have a very sophisticated roadmap. But screenwriting required me to learn a higher level of plottiness, and I tried to bring that to 'The Haters.'

  

  Jesse Andrews
  • Girl
  • Dying
  • Haters

• I'm always learning and trying new things. When you stop learning, you start dying.

  

  Ellen Burstyn
  • Trying
  • Stop
  • Learning

• In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Death
  • Dying

• My favourite actors are all dead or dying. I just love Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn - I was named after her - and Cary Grant. I just love old black and white movies and the stars in them. It must have been a great time to be in Hollywood.

  

  Katharine Isabelle
  • Time
  • Great
  • Black

• When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

  

  Jeremy Taylor
  • Done
  • Trust
  • Prayer

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