Dying famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will maintain that to my dying day
-- Frank Langella -
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
-- Franz Kafka -
Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death.
-- Franz Lehar -
Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.
-- Frederick Buechner -
Ephemerality is the little magazine's generic fate; by promptly dying it gives proof that it remained loyal to its first program.
-- Frederick Crews -
For a person who is dying only eternity counts.
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt -
I am dying innocent. The sentence is wrong. God protect Germany and make Germany great again. Long live Germany! God protect my family!
-- Fritz Sauckel -
I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
-- Gabriel Byrne -
The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
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.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Living in the age of AIDS is one thing. Dying in it is another.
-- Gabrielle Carteris -
There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.
-- Gabrielle Zevin -
Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight, when I come back we will go out together, we will walk out together among, the ten thousand things, each scratched too late with such knowledge, the wages of dying is love.
-- Galway Kinnell -
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had...
-- Gary Jules -
I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other.
-- Gary Shteyngart -
I am going to die of love....daroga....I am dying of love .... That's how it is... I loved her so! And I love her still...daroga.....and I am dying of love for her, I tell you! if you knew how beautiful she was when she let me kiss her...It was the first ...time, daroga, the first time I ever kissed a woman.. Yes, alive... I kissed her alive.... And she looked as beautiful as if she had been dead!
-- Gaston Leroux -
I don't really care. I shouldn't have to care. I shouldn't have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.
-- Gayle Forman -
I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.
-- Gayle Forman -
The purpose of healing is to live while you are alive instead of dying while you are alive. Healing is about being broken and whole at the same time.
-- Geneen Roth -
I don't mind dying, the trouble is you feel so bloody stiff the next day.
-- George Axelrod -
People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.
-- George Best -
Is Art worth dying for? Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.
-- George Clooney -
Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.
-- George Eliot -
There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.
-- George MacDonald -
We'll need to make a litter to carry him," said Osha. "No use," said Luwin. "I'm dying, woman." "You can't," said Rickon angrily. "No you can't." Beside him, Shaggydog bared his teeth and growled. The maester smiled. "Hush now, child, I'm much older than you. I can . . . die as I please.
-- George R. R. Martin -
There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.
-- George S. Patton -
It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health.
-- George Santayana -
Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death...
-- Georges Rodenbach -
Which do you hate more: breaking your word or dying?" "I don't know. I've never done either.
-- Gerald Morris -
Life death all does end and each day dies with sleep.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins -
You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
-- Gertrude Stein -
We are all dying. Every single day that we are alive!
-- Gillian Anderson -
One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking, the many ways the conversation could go came and went like time-lapse film of flowers blooming and dying.
-- Glen Duncan -
Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.
-- Gloria Allred -
I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.
-- Gore Vidal -
You know, you don't need to grow old to die. I was dying at the age of 20 as a result of no direction and no purpose.
-- Grant Cardone -
It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein's rule.
-- Graydon Carter -
The mountains are beautiful but they are not worth dying for.
-- Greg Child -
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.
-- Gregg Allman -
Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.
-- Gregory Maguire -
When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies?
-- Greta Garbo -
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
-- Gustave Flaubert -
Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less.
-- H. L. Mencken -
I do not believe that we can stop perfecting new ways of dying until we have found new ways of living. Every new life-way ought to prevent a new death-way.
-- Haniel Long -
What in thinking only occasionally and quasi-metaphorically happens, to retreat from the world of appearances, takes place in aging and dying as an appearance… in this sense thinking is an anticipation of dying (ceasing, ‘to cease to be among men’) just as action in the sense of ‘to make a beginning’ is a repetition of birth.
-- Hannah -
We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us. We are afraid of not having lived.
-- Harold S. Kushner -
We're always one breath away from something, living or dying, sometimes it just can't be helped.
-- Heather Gudenkauf -
Ministry, however, is simply loving the person in front of you. It's about stopping for the one and being the very fragrance of Jesus to a lost and dying world.
-- Heidi Baker -
The only currency that will heal every culture is ceaseless love. To be a minister, we must walk like Jesus, talk like Jesus, and be like Jesus for a broken and dying world.
-- Heidi Baker -
Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.
-- Henry Cloud -
We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
-- Henry Fielding -
Wherever humans garden magnificently, there are magnificent heartbreaks.
-- Henry Mitchell -
Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
He wondered if he might be in love, but realized it was far more likely he was dying.
-- Herbie Brennan -
At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.
-- Hermann Hesse -
Life everywhere is in vast and endless variety. So it is with life eternal, that gift of God, constituting, in its length and breadth and height and depth, the reward of the righteous. The penitent, dying thief is not going into heaven like the triumphant, dying Paul.
-- Herrick Johnson -
It hurts, it hurts... Im dying, I'm dying.
-- Herve Villechaize -
I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
-- Holly Black -
We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.
-- Holly Black -
I'm dying to get back in front of the cameras. I miss it like crazy.
-- Holly Valance -
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
-- Homer -
The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present -henceforth?- the subject to which you are condemned.
-- Howard Nemerov -
... I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.
-- Hubert Selby, Jr. -
I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me
-- Ian Botham -
I am writing to all the Churches and I enjoin all, that I am dying willingly for God's sake, if only you do not prevent it. I beg you, do not do me an untimely kindness. Allow me to be eaten by the beasts, which are my way of reaching to God. I am God's wheat, and I am to be ground by the teeth of wild beasts, so that I may become the pure bread of Christ.
-- Ignatius of Antioch -
I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.
-- Illeana Douglas -
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
-- Indira Gandhi -
I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
-- Ingvar Kamprad -
Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.
-- Isaac Asimov -
Death does not frighten me, but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does.
-- Isabelle Eberhardt -
I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.
-- Ivan KlÃma -
It's sort of a fine line where you're dying to express it and then hoping no one really gets it that closely. But I'm pretty much over that. I'd really just like to be understood.
-- J. Robbins -
But the heart has a mind of its own and it always gets what it wants, especially when it's dying.
-- J.A. Redmerski -
Life was short, no matter how many days you were granted. And people were precious, each and every one, no matter how many you were lucky enough to have in your life. And love... love was worth dying for. Worth living for, too. -Tohrment
-- J.R. Ward -
And love … love was worth dying for. Worth living for, too.
-- J.R. Ward -
In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford.
-- Jack Vance -
I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.
-- Jackie Cooper -
The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive.
-- Jackie French -
The devil wants to convince you that dying is the worst thing. It is very much easier to do what god made you for than not.
-- Jackie Pullinger -
How long can you hear someone crying - how long can you hear someone dying - before you ask yourself why?
-- Jackson Browne -
Much as constitutional guarantees of press freedom do little good for prospective publishers if they do not have access to paper or ink, the right to aid in dying is strikingly useless if nobody is willing to help.
-- Jacob M. Appel -
This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.
-- Jacqueline Carey -
I have a film called 'A Lonely Place For Dying,' which is the most watched film on the Internet, over 3 million hits, more than any of Hollywood's films.
-- James Cromwell -
I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.
-- James Drummond Burns -
Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. for everyone.
-- James Hetfield