Dying Quotes

• In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of hunger, for the first time. It changed my life. I came back home, told my mother, 'I'd like to live and work in a village.' Mother went into a coma.

  

  Bunker Roy
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Death is a dying industry with an economic phenomenon.

  

  Perianne Boring
  • Death
  • Dying

• The 'New Yorker' asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going to Iceland to shoot a glacier. The real story wasn't the beautiful white top. It ended up being at the terminus of the glacier where it's dying.

  

  James Balog
  • Up
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• Dying - you can't do that to a cat.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Dying
  • Cat

• The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.

  

  Donald Pleasence
  • Work
  • Dying
  • Halloween

• There is something kind of aggressively and inhumanly repetitive about this line that guns are essential to American liberties - hard one to stomach when so many thousands of people are dying every year for this so-called liberty.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • People
  • American
  • Dying

• The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had.

  

  Gary Jules
  • Dying
  • Dreams
  • Ever

• O'Casey was writing about people in the streets and his mother and dying babies and poverty. So that astounded me because I thought you could only write about English matters.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mother

• We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous.... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity is meaningful, profound, worth living and dying for.... If we devote our lives to frivolity, the world will be a far, far better place. Humanity will be better able to fulfill its primary goal, that of having a good time.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• So say it loud and let it ring We are all a part of everything The future, present and the past Fly on proud bird You're free at last

  

  Charlie Daniels
  • Future
  • Death
  • Free

• It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Dying

• As white snowflakes fall quietly and thickly on a winter day, answers to prayer will settle down upon you at every step you take, even to your dying day. The story of your life will be the story of prayer and answers to prayer.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Prayer

• If you could stop the suffering and dying, and didn't stop it, then you are guilty. It is your fault.We kill no one. We do not let them kill us. We have nothing to do with them.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Stop
  • Suffering
  • Guilty

• A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.

  

  Caroline Norton
  • Tears
  • Soldier
  • Lays

• I have a film called 'A Lonely Place For Dying,' which is the most watched film on the Internet, over 3 million hits, more than any of Hollywood's films.

  

  James Cromwell
  • Dying
  • Lonely

• The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

  

  Alice James
  • Fun
  • Dying
  • Difficulty

• Music, in its higher state, for me, is worth living and dying for. It's worth traipsing around the globe, it's worth the accolades and the other side of the accolades...I always have sung to the angels and the higher parts of people's souls.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • Music
  • Soul

• Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.

  

  Alexander Payne
  • Die
  • 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

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

  

  Ellen Burstyn
  • Trying
  • Stop
  • Learning

• Christian living means dying with Christ and rising again. That, as we saw, is part of the meaning of baptism, the starting point of the Christian pilgrimage.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Mean
  • Christian
  • Baptism

• Even with my father and brother dying, I didn't quite process the grief.

  

  Marc Forster
  • Father
  • Brother
  • Grief

• The last consequence of a dying Christianity is a dying people. Not one post-Christian nation has a birth rate sufficient to keep it alive….The death of European Christianity means the disappearance of the European tribe, a prospect visible in the demographic statistics of every Western nation.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • Death
  • Christian

• I started doing a Twitter feed when my father was dying. I was very distracted, preoccupied. It was upsetting.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • Father
  • Dying

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