Best 2053 quotes in «dying quotes» category

But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that's the blessing.

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

But death doesn't scare me. To know exactly when I might expect it, up close and in my face, would actually be a comfort. Because to tell the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape.

But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.

But it isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying. They are refusing emotion because at the end of very emotion are property, money, power. They work and despise their work, and so freeze themselves. They love but know that it's a half- love or a twisted love, and so they freeze themselves.

But the peasants - how do the peasants die?

But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy.

But we are not interested in death at all: rather, we escape the facts, we are continuously escaping the facts. Death is there, and every moment we are dying. Death is not something far away, it is here and now: we are dying. But while we are dying we go on being concerned about life. This concern with life, this over concern with life, is just an escape, just a fear. Death is there, deep inside - growing.

But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.

But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death.

But you can’t live your life worried about dying all the time. If you do, you’re dead already.

By daily dying, I have come to be.

By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.

Cajun culture is dying.

Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog!

Can I tell you something? It wasn't so bad. Not so bad at all right then, me scowling at the dirt, James in his bed, the way it always always was. Look, if that's all that happened, if his dying just meant that I would be waiting for him to say something instead of listening to him say something, it would have been fine.

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.

Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.

Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.

Come my little one, and give me your hand.

Dear me! I must be turning into a god.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.

Death frees from the fear of dying

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.

Death is but an instant, life a long torment.

Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.

Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.

Death is the door from the superficial life, the so-called life, the trivial. There is a door. If you pass through the door you reach another life - deeper, eternal, without death, deathless. So from so-called life, which is really nothing but dying, one has to pass through the door of death; only then does one achieve a life that is really existential and active - without death in it.

Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I.

Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.

Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.

Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.

Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.

Death frees the beast.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Death is nothing to fear. It is only another dimension.

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

Death is the final wake-up call.