Dying Quotes

• The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood. The person who is not willing to die for his liberty has already lost it to the first scoundrel who is willing to risk dying to violate that person’s liberty. Are you free?

  

  Andrew Ford
  • Dying
  • Liberty
  • Blood

• The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.

  

  Carol Grace
  • Process
  • Born
  • Accelerates

• I think you die the way you live.

  

  William Shatner
  • Thinking
  • Death
  • Way

• I was dying when you came.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Dying

• Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid... They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild - and what happened? The men wilted.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Men
  • Women
  • Taken

• I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of living.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Dying
  • Afraid

• Eventually, Dad and I had to start talking again, because it’s hard to avoid speaking to someone when you’re each supporting one arm of a dying person.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Hard
  • Speaking
  • Arm

• The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Dying
  • Clear
  • Bears

• That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Running
  • Risk
  • Dying

• If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.

  

  Suge Knight
  • People
  • Age
  • Violence

• The media covers what’s new – and millions of people dying is nothing new. So it stays in the background, where it’s easier to ignore. But even when we do see it or read about it, it’s difficult to keep our eyes on the problem. It’s hard to look at suffering if the situation is so complex that we don’t know how to help. And so we look away.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Ignore
  • Media covers

• Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about.

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • Christian
  • Training
  • Knows

• This was a kind of dying. Losing the woman I truly had loved, and still loved more than anything, was just unfathomable. To me, she was the world.

  

  Andres Lokko
  • World
  • Woman
  • Dying

• If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Dying
  • Living
  • Found

• You're dying with the way things are," Della Lee said harshly, causing Josey to lower the handful of popcorn she was about to put in her mouth. "You're going to lose yourself in this, Josey. It's going to happen if you don't change. I know. I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Trying
  • Mouths
  • Popcorn

• I don't mind dying, the trouble is you feel so bloody stiff the next day.

  

  George Axelrod
  • Dying
  • Trouble
  • Bloody

• One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Death
  • Wonder
  • Dies

• I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Mind
  • Funny
  • Suicide

• All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. Alas, poor Yorick, that's about death. And in Romeo and Juliet everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.

  

  Ray Winstone
  • World
  • Play
  • Violence

• Please know my deep respect for humans and human life. Such beautiful, fragile animals, so fleeting and easily broken and yet powerful beyond anything faeries can ever hope to be. We cannot create but live forever, unchanging. You change with every breath, dying even as you live, but your thread to eternity and immortality is reborn with every new generation

  

  Kiersten White
  • Beautiful
  • Powerful
  • Forever

• Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Goal
  • Dying
  • Security

• The fact that he had foamed at the mouth immediately upon dying, indicated that he had a great back jam of wishes and desires and truths that were never spoken...out bubbled all the words he had swallowed when he was alive.

  

  Kaye Gibbons
  • Desire
  • Wish
  • Mouths

• As long as I'm fighting, I'm not dying." - Mara Jade Skywalker

  

  Michael A. Stackpole
  • Long
  • Fighting
  • Dying

• If it's a matter of dying here or dying there, I think I'd like to at least see the world first.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Dying
  • First

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