Best 2053 quotes in «dying quotes» category

Sociopaths are not afraid of very much, except for physical harm and dying - really primitive, basic kinds of fears. The problem with being alone for a sociopath is boredom.

So let me get this straight,” Carter said. “The two guys you liked—one who was dying and one who was off-limits because he’s a god—are now one guy, who isn’t dying and isn’t off-limits. And you’re complaining.

Someday I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying.

Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of should value life more. It's contrast.

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

Some people are scared of dying. Never be afraid to die. Because you're born to die.

Some people want to achieve immortality through their works or their descendants. I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.

Sometimes a little near death experience helps them put things into perspective.

Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or that if it is dying it will return to life, what with a little sun and the usual encouragement.

Sometimes, love feels like a life or death situation. Losing true love is pretty much as bad as it gets, other than actually dying or losing good health. Most people know that. Most people can relate. It's like the end of the world.

Sometimes your worst competitors are the ones which are dying because they do stupid things.

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.

Soon I will honor my parents by dying as they died. and if all they believed about death was true, soon I will join them in whatever comes next.

So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not wholly absorbed into the social one is turned over to hygiene. In being seen as no more than the exit of a living creature from the social combine, death has been domesticated: dying merely confirms the absolute irrelevance of the natural organism in face of the social absolute.

Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of; in nothing on which you might not pray for the blessing of God; in nothing which you could not review with a quiet conscience on your dying bed; in nothing which you might not safely and properly be found doing if death should surprise you in the act.

So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in ideas that we don't even notice how monstrous it is to deny ideas to a people who are dying without them.

So you are dying for love, then," Will said finally, his voice sounding constricted to his own ears. 'Dying a little faster for love. And there are worse things to die for.

Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.

Stage performing is a dying art form.

Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.

Suicide is a very permanent solution to what is usually a temporary problem.

Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was invented: to escape teenagers altogether.

Sure smokers have made personal choices. And they pay for those choices every day, whether sitting through an airline flight dyingfor a smoke, or dying for a smoke in the oncology wing of a hospital. The tobacco companies have not paid nearly enough for the killing.

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

Standing knee deep in a river and dying of thirst.

Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.

"Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for." "Anything worth living for," said Nately, "is worth dying for." "And anything worth dying for," answered the sacrilegious old man, "is certainly worth living for.

Surely you have to succeed, if you give everything you have.' 'I don't see why. Everyone has to give everything they have eventually. They have to die. Dying can't be called a success.

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.

Take the goods the gods provide, and don't stand and sulk when they are snatched away.

Talent? That's not talent. Talent is Liza Minnelli tap dancing and singing at the same time. What I just saw was devastation. Dying man on the cross. Salvation in B minor.

Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying.

Taking a walk isn't really taking a walk, taking a shower isn't really taking a shower, living isn't living, and dying isn't dying. It only appears to be.

Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

That Jem makes beautiful things and I destroy them. That it really ought to be me dying and not him. I mean, what's the point of living if you can't even enjoy it? Yet Jem enjoys all the life he's got. It's not fair.

That said, I'm embarrassed and furious that so many coal-state Democrats in the U.S. Senate are paralyzing international progress to protect the short term interests of a dying industry that ravages the environment from mine to slag heap.

That’s it?” Jason asked. “You spent an hour talking about how lucky you were to be dying?” No, not dying, Son. Living.

That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of it?

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

That's why you have to save the dying man. Because you want him around to keep saving you.

That which you worry about most in life is seldom bad, and that likely applies to dying.