Dying Quotes

My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it.

Roz Chast
- Mother
- Father
- Parent
As soon as a woman is old enough to have an opinion and have a voice and be unafraid, she's very much encouraged by all sorts of people to crawl under a rock and die. And it's so weird. My crime is not dying.

Sarah Silverman
- People
- Opinion
- Enough

The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.

Alicia Keys
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

William Penn
- World
- Death
- Stills
Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.

Tom Hanks
- Life
- Dying
- Mama
I’m not sure I like their plan for converting us to their religion, seeing as it involves dying and all.

John Scalzi
- Dying
There's enough ugliness - you know, we got wars going on and people dying and sickness and everything. We don't need to have our art be ugly. But it is, in a lot of it. And these people justify this crap by saying, "Oh we're just representing what's out there, man". Basically, you're making it worse and number one, the artist's job is to elevate people and to lift people up and to give them a place to go, something to hold on to.

Don McLean
- People
- Up
- Men
For years, I have been stalked by a bad reputation. Actually, I have been pursued by people who have regarded me as the 'Death and Dying' Lady. They believe that having spent more than three decades in research into death and life after death qualifies me as an expert on the subject. I think they miss the point.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- People
- Life
- Believe