Dying Quotes
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There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we've had dying from the tsunami.
David Nabarro -
I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
William Shakespeare
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I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.
Sonya Hartnett -
I wrote these songs for a dying planet, I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth.
Joe Walsh The Eagles -
Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
William Butler Yeats -
The highest hope of Socrates’ peers, of young Athenian men, was to serve Athens by dying for her.
Bettany Hughes -
The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off.
Alexei Sayle -
"Is Art worth dying for?" Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.
George Clooney
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Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
Erik Erikson -
Boxing is a dying sport, really. Years ago, the world heavyweight champion could be said to have reached the highest pinnacle of sport. Even in this country, boxers were heroes. Think of Henry Cooper and Frank Bruno.
Tyson Fury -
Dying peacefully means to avoid any immediate cause for anger, fear, or strong desire.
Lobsang Tenzin -
I think my biggest fear is dying. Although sometimes my biggest fear is not dying. But yeah, I think health stuff for me is more what I'm afraid of.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill -
My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.
Jack Roy -
Old Dan must have known he was dying. Just before he drew his last breath, he opened his eyes and looked at me. Then with one last sigh, and a feeble thump of his tail, his friendly gray eyes closed forever.
Wilson Rawls
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It's taken years for me to understand that dying doesn't end the story; it transforms it. Edits, rewrites, the blur, aand epiphany of one-way dialogue. Most of us wander in and out of one another's lives until not death, but distance, does us part-- time and space and heart's weariness are the blander executioners or human connection.
Gail Caldwell -
All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.
Og Mandino -
And that enquiring man John Synge comes next, That dying chose the living world for text And never could have rested in the tomb But that, long travelling, he had come Towards nightfall upon certain set apart In a most desolate stony place.
William Butler Yeats -
Christ did not die for man because they were intrinsically worth dying for, but because he is intrinsically love, and therefore loves infinitely.
C. S. Lewis -
My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it.
Roz Chast -
I feel people naturally have a brightness. When that is extinguished by circumstances - be it a wrong marriage or a situation that you cannot leave psychologically - there's something about that dying spark that I'm drawn to playing.
Vanessa Kirby
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Like a led victim, to my death I'll go, And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow.
John Dryden -
You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.
Vladimir Nabokov -
One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing.
Edwin Arnold -
Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.
Elaine Stritch