Best 2053 quotes in «dying quotes» category

Along the way I have been able to choose some themes which ask questions - not necessarily force a message on anyone, but at least invite the audience to question things: jury service, dignity in dying, Ireland - and not least because they force me to ask myself questions. Where do I stand?

Almost dying is awfully easy. It's the living that's hard.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to inflate myself; I had disappointed my own expectations and was genuinely worried about dying in the streets.

A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

A man's legacy is determined by how the story ends.

America is dying at 1 percent GDP.

America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism.

American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution.

A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.

Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story.

A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for.

And anything worth dying for

And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow.

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

And here I am, dying in my bed, like cattle die. May the eyes of cowards never sleep.

...and I have this stupid little thought that Aaron didn't survive the croc attack after all, that he died but he's so pissed off at me that dying didn't stop him from coming here to kill me anyway.

And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.

And those who say, "I'll try anything once," often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for.

...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.

And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.

And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away.

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

Another difference between death and taxes is that you don't have to work like fury to pay for the dying you did last year.

An office is a machine for dying.

Anything I do today, I regard as urgent.

Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.

Approaches to death and dying reveal much of the attitude of society as a whole to the individuals who compose it. The development of ideas of what constitutes a good death can even be traced to prehistory.

...a pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a generous portion. Then I think that I should refuse outright to die, for life would be too good to relinquish.

A person who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only to consider whether in doing anything he or she is doing right or wrong- acting the part of a good person or a bad person.

Apparently vodka helps flowers last longer when they're dying. But you can put vodka in anything and it'll make it better.

Are all ends of life so sad?

Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.

Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?

Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.

As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.

As far as he knew, I was dying.

A sad smile crossed her face, and I knew right then what she was trying to tell me. Her eyes never left mine as she finally said the words that numbed my soul. I'm dying, Landon.

As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.

A sob racks my body again, and he wraps his arms around me so tightly I find it difficult to breathe, but it doesn't matter. My dignified weeping gives way to full-on ugliness, my mouth open and my face contorted and sounds like a dying animal coming from my throat. If this continues I will break apart, and maybe that would be better, maybe it would be better to shatter and bear nothing.

A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

As long as I'm fighting, I'm not dying." - Mara Jade Skywalker

A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

As soon as one is born, one starts dying.

As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.