Dying Quotes
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In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.
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Dying's a boring side effect.
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Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.
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I sat very still, as befitted a small boy among strangers, staring wide-eyed into a world I did not know. I was six years old and my father was dying.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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I don't let a lot of people know about my dad dying on 9/11. It's not a way to introduce yourself. So I never told anybody, and then I would do jokes about it... and I think people thought I was lying about it. Which would be crazy!
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Peoples of European descent are not only in a relative but a real decline. They are aging, dying, disappearing. This is the existential crisis of the West.
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But I'm dying now and done for,What on earth was all the fun for?I am ill and old and terrified and tight.
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I'd sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn't sound like dying cats.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.
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By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed, By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned, By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
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I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.
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Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
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Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?
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I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.
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Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.
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Dying in childbirth is something that's not new; it's been going on for ages, and so it's not something that people focus on; it's not something that gets funded a lot, and it's exactly for that reason that we are losing mothers all the time, and we have kids with no mothers.
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I went skydiving, I went rocky mountain climbling, I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Blue Manchu.And I loved deeper, and I spoke sweeter, and I gave forgiveness I'd been denying.And he said 'Someday, I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying.'
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I came to N.Y.C. in 1988 and got very involved with Act Up. I also started making movies, including two very gay shorts, 'Vaudeville' and 'Lady.' It was the height of the AIDS epidemic, and New York City was both dying and very alive at the same time.
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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don't postpone your dreams.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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I called the album 'The Chemo' because it seems like the industry and music overall is dying slowly.
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To live a life that is wrong for you is a form of dying. There are people who have lives that look perfect. They try to be happy, they believe they should be happy, they are trying to like it, but if it's off course from their north star, they aren't satisfied.
