Dying Quotes
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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
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As long as I'm fighting, I'm not dying." - Mara Jade Skywalker
Michael A. Stackpole
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
Erica Jong
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I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.
Molly Ivins
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He had a smug smile on his lips like he knew, even in his sleep, that women all around him were dying from love because he'd taken their hearts and hidden them where they'd never find them.
Sarah Addison Allen
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
Erica Jong
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Too many of you, my friends, are dying. Now it's time for me to do my part and help you.
Estelle Getty
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It simply comes down to this, Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying.
Tim Robbins
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I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.
Bill Gates
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"What for?" I said. "What for, Tante Lou? He treated me the same way he treated her. He wants me to feel guilty, just as he wants her to feel guilty. Well, I'm not feeling guilty, Tante Lou. I didn't put him there. I do everything I know how to do to keep people like him from going there. He's not going to make me feel guilty."
Ernest Gaines
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We are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
Terence McKenna
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In Google's world, public space is just something that stands between your house and the well-reviewed restaurant that you are dying to get to.
Evgeny Morozov
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The year is dying in the night.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Now, about that mulatto teacher and me. There was no love there for each other. There was not even respect. We were enemies if anything. He hated me, and I knew it, and he knew I knew it. I didn't like him, but I needed him, needed him to tell me something that none of the others could or would.
Ernest Gaines
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We've seen some players dying from playing football, and the questions are why can't the medical team stop it from happening.
Nwankwo Kanu
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Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.
Thomas Hood
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Naruto: I bet you're dying to know my name! Gaara: I couldn't care less.
Masashi Kishimoto
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Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend.
Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
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Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying.
Etel Adnan
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...Anything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.
Joseph Heller
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I guess that is what dying must be like; to be finished and to be able to look back at the struggles of life, and know that God was your constant companion.
Mother Angelica
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The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.
Terence McKenna
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The weekend is not a good time for dying, you should never die anytime between Friday evening and Monday morning. Wednesday is the best day for dying except in some towns in Connecticut where even the barber shops are closed on Wednesday.
Ed McBain