Dying Quotes

• 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

• You're dying every minute, but you won't die yet.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Dying
  • Minute

• The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Dying
  • Budget
  • Aid

• 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

• 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
  • Dying
  • Weekend
  • Barbershops

• Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.

  

  Ernest Becker
  • Dying
  • Victory
  • Personal

• 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
  • Purpose
  • Dying

• 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

• I am dying, Egypt, dying.

  

  Marc Antony
  • Dying
  • Egypt

• Life death all does end and each day dies with sleep.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Death
  • Sleep
  • Dying

• Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out cards praying for "Peace on Earth."

  

  David C. Coates
  • People
  • Peace
  • Laughter

• You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Family
  • Death
  • Dying

• We pick up people dying full of worms from the street. We have picked up more than 40,000 of them. If I lift up such a person, clean him, love him and serve him, is it conversion? He has been there like an animal in the street but I am giving him love and he dies peacefully. That peace comes from his heart. That's between him and God.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • Heart
  • Giving

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

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • People
  • Dying

• In our home (for the dying at Kali Ghat) in Calcutta, there is great peace, unity and love. Many Hindu families bring food, clothing nonstop to our home for the dying. This is an act of love. I didn't ask them. They have only heard about what I am doing and they all come.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Home
  • Dying
  • Unity

• I realized that I had the call to take care of the sick and the dying, the hungry, the naked, the homeless - to be God's Love in action to the poorest of the poor. That was the beginning of the Missionaries of Charity.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Action
  • Care
  • Sick

• By daily dying, I have come to be.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Dying

• You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Different
  • Death
  • Kind

• Dying is one of those things that can’t be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • World
  • Brain
  • Talking

• I'm not dying for things to say.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Dying
  • Say

• We're afraid to live, because we're afraid of dying.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Philosophy
  • Dying

• Not loving is but a long dying.

  

  Emperor Wu of Han
  • Love
  • Dying

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