Best 2053 quotes in «dying quotes» category

No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.

Not actively surviving is passively dying.

Not dead-dying. Funny how two things could be so similar and yet so far apart

No, thats not how it happened... Mr crepsley dropped. He was impaled on the stakes. He died. And it was awful... His cries as he writhed there, bleeding and dying, burning and screaming, will stay with me till I die. Maybe I'll even carry them with me after I go.

Nothing can happen more than once, but everything must happen one day; Over hill and dale, wood and stream, my dying voice will blow away. . .

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Nothing is irreversible except dying.

Nothing is more vintage than dying of Rubella.

Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it.

Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.

Nothing matters. Nothing matters.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.

Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear.

Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying.

Not the least of the hardships to which the dying are subject is the visitation of their loved ones. The poor darlings, God bless them, may feel every impulse to condole and console, but their primary sensation is nonetheless one of embarrassment in the presence of the unspeakable and a guilty gratitude that it is not yet their fate.

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death.

Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.

Now people with HIV are no longer dying, but living many years - we are around longer to potentially affect others.

Now they got such a high inheritance tax on 'em that you won't catch these old rich boys dying promiscuously like they did. This bill makes patriots out of everybody. You sure do die for your country if you die from now on.

October turned my maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers: Soon these will slip from the twigs' weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.

Oh great, socks. You know I'm dying for your sins right? Yeah, but thanks for the socks! They'll go great with my sandals. What am I, German?

Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.

Oh, do not cry - be good children and we will all meet in heaven.

Oh, don't mind me! Just the queen of the heavens, dying over here!

Oh, injurious love, that respites me a life, whose very comfort is still a dying horror

Oh death, you can wait; keep your distance.

Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.

Old Dan must have known he was dying. Just before he drew his last breath, he opened his eyes and looked at me. Then with one last sigh, and a feeble thump of his tail, his friendly gray eyes closed forever.

Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Once self-killing is an acceptable answer, how do you logically limit it to the dying? What about the disabled, who may live longer and suffer more?

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

Once upon a time, an angel lay dying in the mist. And a devil knelt over him and smiled.

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.

Once you decide that you're going to have the death of Spock, then how does that affect the other people? Why is it there? I got a lot of stick from a lot of people from the very beginning about the idea of killing Spock. Somebody said, "You can't kill him." And I said, "Sure you can; the only question is whether you do it well.

One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing.

One day, Liesel.' he said, 'you'll be dying to kiss me.

Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.

One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking, the many ways the conversation could go came and went like time-lapse film of flowers blooming and dying.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.

One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.

One of the biggest lessons I learned from nearly dying of cancer is the importance of loving myself unconditionally. In fact, learning to love and accept myself unconditionally is what healed me and brought me back from the brink of death.

One mind awake can become stronger than a thousand zombies sleepwalking in a dying civilization.

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.

One of the scandalous things I did was as I read them afterward I would burn them. I loved them, but for practical reasons I had to lighten the load. I burned favorites, like William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying." There's a whole list in the back of my book. It's me,[Adolf] Hitler, [Benito] Mussolini, and Pol Pot. We're the book burners.