Best 2053 quotes in «dying quotes» category

Let's consider: at the time of the Buddha, when he attained enlightenment, according to the old texts, in the first watch of the night, he went through all of his past lifetimes. Then in the second watch of the night, his mind opened still further and encompassed the coming into being and dying and re-coming into being of all beings, everywhere. The third watch of the night, he realized interdependent origination. He realized interdependent origination because he saw it. It wasn't some theory he thought up. He saw it. That was his enlightenment experience. That was why he was a Buddha.

Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.

Let the historic dissection begin. Man-made global warming is a dying market and a zombie science.

L'ide  e qu'on mourra est plus cruelle que mourir, mais moins que l'ide  e qu'un autre est mort. The idea of dying is worse than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that another has died.

Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.

Life everywhere is in vast and endless variety. So it is with life eternal, that gift of God, constituting, in its length and breadth and height and depth, the reward of the righteous. The penitent, dying thief is not going into heaven like the triumphant, dying Paul.

Life found itself alive and somehow knew its opposite was death.  We are ever being born, or dying, and the thrill of choosing is ours.  Only once, must we be born without our own consent.  Only once, must we die without our own permission

Life has no guarantees, though. What good is living if all you think about is dying?

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Life is a constant process of dying.

Life is like a concentration camp... you can't leave without dying.

Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

Life is one passage and then you keep moving into another state. It's like you might be reborn, but the process of being born you won't remember - the same way that the dying process is a slow movement from consciousness to unconsciousness.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

Life is uncertain; death is certain.

Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our Island was one of the scenes of conflict between a dying civilisation and lusty, famishing barbarism.

Like Trump`s presidential bid, the Brexit campaign has been driven largely by fears of cultural penetration, immigrant invasion, and the genuine crisis of Middle East refugees dying to get into Europe, all channeled into a kind of inward-turning form of ethno-nationalism.

Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight, when I come back we will go out together, we will walk out together among, the ten thousand things, each scratched too late with such knowledge, the wages of dying is love.

Living for today will bring about dying for today. You can’t just think, ‘I’m going to die anyway,’ because that’s what’s stopping us from moving forward.

living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.

Living in fear is just another way of dying before your time.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.

Living is the same thing as dying. Living well is the same thing as dying for others.

Living's heavy work, but off to one side the way we are, it's useless, too. It don't make sense. If I knowed how to climb back on the wheel, I'd do it in a minute. You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.

Living, we fret. Dying, we live. I’ll keep that in mind. I’ll be of good cheer.

Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!

Losing and dying: it's the same thing.

Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair.

Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain.

Lovers, like dying men, may well At first disorder'd be, Since none alive can truly tell What Fortune they must see.

Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.

Make sure the thing you're living for is worth dying for.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

Many, if not most, Americans can imagine a fate worse than death, and it is a seemingly interminable process of dying. For them, it is frightening that politicians can find ways to interject themselves into this sad process.

Many ALS patients end up fading away quietly and dying. For me, this was not OK. I did not want to fade away quietly.

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.

Many times Christians state their love for the Lord and their willingness to die for Him. I will make no pretense of knowing the Lord's will in your life, but I do feel that in most cases the Lord is far more interested in our living for Him than He is in our dying for Him.

Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one's faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one's life

Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.

Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.

Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Maybe you had to be dying to finally get to do what you wanted.I fidgeted around with the puzzle pieces for a while longer, but I wasn't lucky. Nothing seemed to fit without a whole lot of work.Then I had this thought: What if it was enough to realize that you would die someday, that none of this would go on forever? Would that be enough?

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.