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

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

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Running
  • Risk
  • Dying

• "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
  • Feelings
  • Feels
  • Guilty

• Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying.

  Etel Adnan
  • Dying
  • Rivers

• 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

• Don't tell me to believe. Don't tell me to believe in the same God or laws that men believe in who commit these murders. Don't tell me to believe that God can bless this country and that men are judged by their peers. Who among his peers judged him? Was I there? Was the minister there? Was Harry Williams there? Was Farrell Jarreau? Was my aunt? Was Vivian? No, his peers did not judge him, and I will not believe.

  

  Ernest Gaines
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Country

• It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • Dying

• We keep making the same mistakes as a species, and you can usually draw it back to the fact that we are all terrified of dying. We also all think that we are going to escape it until we get to 65!

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Mistakes
  • Escape
  • Terrified

• Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Angry

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Michael A. Stackpole
  • Long
  • Fighting
  • Dying

• 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
  • Struggle
  • Finished
  • Companion

• 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

• 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

• 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
  • World
  • Mind
  • Player

• ...Anything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Dying
  • Certainly

• Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend.

  

  Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
  • Death
  • Garden
  • Ends

• Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!

  

  Cotton Mather
  • Death
  • Dying
  • Feared

• I've never been involved with anyone who's set out to hurt people, to break legs. It is a bit of a dying art

  

  Stephen Bruce
  • People
  • Break
  • Involved

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

  

  George Axelrod
  • Dying
  • Trouble
  • Bloody

• 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
  • Teacher
  • Enemy
  • Needed

• I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • People
  • Dying

• Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Mean
  • Moving
  • Player

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