Dying Quotes - Page 19

Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.

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

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.

The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.

Death is the gate of life.

The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

Only cowards insult dying majesty.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my tears.

If you're not busy living, you're dying.

It can never be bad to have a foundation as a man - a black man - in a time when women are dying for men. Women have started to become lovers of each other as a result of not having enough men.

Someday I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying.

I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.

People continue to fear dying, only because no one ever has.

I had never given much thought to how I would die, but dying in the place of someone I love doesn't seem like such a bad way to go.

God limits the happiness and pleasure we have now precisely so we might not become attached to this world or dependent upon it or fearful of leaving it (dying), as well as to stir in our hearts a longing and yearning and holy anticipation for what is yet to come.

If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without dying.

Just as the divine Redeemer, dying on the Cross, offered Himself as Head of the whole human race to the eternal Father, so also in this "clean oblation" (Mal 1:2), He, as Head of the Church, offers not only Himself but, in Himself, all His mystical members.

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.

Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying.

There's a remedy for everything except death.

Only the young die good.

How to measure a life's worth? The important thing, said Paloma one day, is not the fact of dying, it is what you are doing in the moment of your death.

I either want to be completely recovered or completely emaciated. It's the in between that I can't stand, the limbo of failure where you know that you haven't done your best at one or the other: dying or living.