Best 2053 quotes in «dying quotes» category

Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them.

Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.

Before dying, my last wish will be to see MS Dhoni's World Cup Winning Six.

Being born he have himself as our Companion, Eating with us he gave himself as Food, Dying He became our Ransom, Reigning he gives himself as our Reward

Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

Are all ends of life so sad?

Beloved Renegade is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.

Best hope for what, Catman? Death? Bankruptcy? You know, my life was going along…well, rather crappily, to be honest, but at least no one was trying to kill me and no one was dying around me. Since I met you, my life has taken the high road to Shitsville, with no off-ramp in sight. (Susan)

Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.

Between killing and dying there's a third way: live

Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'

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.

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.

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

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.

Come my little one, and give me your hand.

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

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, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.

Death - to blink for an exceptionally long period of time.

Depression is a side effect of dying. (Almost everything is, really).

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Did ya get in a couple of good swipes?" Emmett asked eagerly. "No! Of course not!" "No, not really? You really didnt attack him?" "Emmett!" I protested. "Aw, what a waste. And here you're probably the one person who could take him- since he can't get into your head to cheat- and you had a perfect excuse too. I've been dying to see how he'd do without that advantage.

Does nobody understand?

Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear dying, of dying I feel a sense of waste about it and I fear a sordid death, where I am incapacitated or imbecilic at the end which isn't something to be afraid of, it's something to be terrified of.

Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable.

Do not fear. Look beyond what's dying to what's being born.

Don't ask others to forgive in you a sin they're dying to commit themselves.