Best 2053 quotes in «dying quotes» category

Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.

Wherever humans garden magnificently, there are magnificent heartbreaks.

Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.

While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water.

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?

Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.

Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?

Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing death forever. We know, in Milarepa's words: "This thing called 'corpse' we dread so much is living with us here and now.

Why do dying people never shed tears?

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Sill, to cease living is unacceptable.

Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!

Why am I dying to live if I'm just living to die.

Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?

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?

Why, the only reason for religion is that it can make you, keep you safe. If religion weren't true, then there would be no salvation, no comfort for being alive and alone, there would be nothing but living and dying - no, that cannot be so ... of course religion is true and will save me.

Why was everyone dying? They had all been so alive just yesterday.

Why worry about these small, small things? I don't stress. You never hear of anyone dying of happiness.

Will: "You are not really dying, are you?" Jem: "So they tell me." Will: "I am sorry." Jem: "No. Don’t be ordinary like that. Don’t say you’re sorry. Say you’ll train with me." Will: "I’ll train with you.

Without a daily supply of proteins, vitamins, and minerals, no matter how much energy we get in the form of calories, our bodies and minds deteriorate because we are not able to fully replace the dying cells in our internal and external organs.

Without question, dying on 'Lost' was the best thing I have ever done in my entire career.

Why, in our "free" country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Woe is me. Me thinks I'm turning into a god.

Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.

Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre. We do that by speaking from the heart about the things that matter most to us. If a play isn't worth dying for, maybe it isn't worth writing.

Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?

You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

You better get busy living, because dying's a pain in the ass.

You can have your own watch and always doubt it. If I had a watch I'd probably always be doubting it or the batteries would be dying. I just know that people always have trouble with their watches, and that's why I like public clocks.

Yes, it's tough, but not as tough as doing comedy.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done well, that is just as engaging as the end of the world. A million people dying - we can't process. One person, we can process.

You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.

You can't get any more patriotic than dying for the country.

You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out.

You don't die in the United States, you underachieve.

You don't have to find out you're dying to start living.

You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.

You don't throw away a whole life just because it's banged up a little.

You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict

You have been used to take notice of the sayings of dying men — this is mine: That a life spent in the service of God, and communion with him, is the most comfortable and pleasant life that one can live in the present world.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

You get angry - death does that.

You have to be at the forefront of culture to create art, which they call "product," and Hollywood is not. It's this very old business model, which I think is dying in a lot of ways.