Dying Quotes - Page 12

What I had not counted on was discovering how closely a man could come to dying and still not die, or want to die. That, too, was mine; and it also is to the good. For that experience resolved proportions and relationships for me as nothing else could have done; and it is surprising, approaching the final enlightenment, how little one really has to know or feel sure about.

Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

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

This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.

Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come.

Dying is not a crime.

I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well.

Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.

I'm just dying to return to the Octagon and do the thing I most love in my life. That's what I want right now.

Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.

For one who thinks food in itself is the source of life, eating is the communion with the dying world, it is communion with death. Food itself is dead, it is life that has died and it must be kept in refrigerators like a corpse.

Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.

Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying.

Before you pledge your undying love to someone, make them promise they won't die.

First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.

That is why we fly from the inner void, since God might steal into it. It is not the pursuit of pleasure and the aversion for effort which causes sin, but fear of God. We know that we cannot see him face to face without dying, and we do not want to die.

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.

It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution.

Dying people don't need medicine, the ones who remain do.

I love discourse. I'm dying to have my mind changed. I'm probably the only liberal who read Treason, by Ann Coulter. I want to know, you understand? I like listening to everybody. This to me is the elixir of life.

To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.

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

Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.