Dying Quotes - Page 17

He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.

The belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and society’s, attempt to deal with the reality of what is all too frequently a series of destructive events that involve by their very nature the disintegration of the dying person’s humanity. I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.

Well, in Twilight, I started out dying my hair blonde. And then, as the movie progressed, I wore wigs. The wigs went through a transformation. In Breaking Dawn, it's a little longer. That's my arc.

TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.

During the mid-1980s dairy farmers decided there was too much cheap milk at the supermarket. So the government bought and slaughtered 1.6 million dairy cows. How come the government never does anything like this with lawyers?

On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step

We're just afraid, period. Our fear is free-floating. We're afraid this isn't the right relationship or we're afraid it is. We're afraid they won't like us or we're afraid they will. We're afraid of failure or we're afraid of success. We're afraid of dying young or we're afraid of growing old. We're more afraid of life than we are of death.

He wanted to pay her; he thought women ought to be paid for keeping men from dying or going out of their minds.

If your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation; he wants you to sit with him. He's terrified of being alone more than anything else. So, God has not left us alone.

I'm slightly pessimistic about human nature, about how close it's possible to bond with those around you. Dying alone is a deep fear for most people. I'm not scared of death but I'm scared of dying scared. Maybe everything else in life comes from those two points: the separation anxiety of childhood and the ultimate fear of dying alone.

To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep

Oh great, socks. You know I'm dying for your sins right? Yeah, but thanks for the socks! They'll go great with my sandals. What am I, German?

Do you hear the rain? Do you hear the rain?

... there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.

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.

Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused. The privilege, inborn and inalienable, that every man has of dying himself, and inflicting death upon another, was not given to us without a purpose. These are the last resources of an insulted and unendurable existence.

Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.

Everybody is worried about dying, but the cause of death is birth, so if you don't want to die, you don't get born!

I want to be all used up when I die.

For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.

Greece expects you not merely to die for her, for that is little, indeed; she expects you to conquer. That is why each one of you, even in dying, should be possessed by one thought alone - how to conserve your strength to the last so that those who survive may conquer. And you will conquer, I am more than sure of this.

Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.

Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not.