Dying Quotes - Page 21

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

They have passed the big inheritance tax, and that gets you when you are gone. You used to could die and be able to beat taxes, but not now. The undertaker don't go over your body as carefully as the assessor does your accumilated assets, and he gets his before the undertaker. They have it on these big fortunes now where they pay as high as 60 to 70 percent of what they leave. That's mighty expensive dying when it runs into money like that, and you won't see 'em dropping off as casually as they have been.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about.

Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing death forever. We know, in Milarepa's words: "This thing called 'corpse' we dread so much is living with us here and now."

The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.

Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.

We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.

I really do fear that I'm dying I really do fear that I'm dead I saw it in your eyes what I'm looking for I saw it in your eyes what will make me live.

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done well, that is just as engaging as the end of the world. A million people dying - we can't process. One person, we can process.

It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.

There's a reason why actors are always dying to work with the Coens. They just set the stage for you to do their best work.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of should value life more. It's contrast.

If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.

I keep on dying, Because I love to live

In today's world, human beings are dying and human machines are taking birth.

All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.